Ch 2, Polish / English Wordlist

Polish, English, Gender, Pronunciation, Menomic

• biały, white, m, BYA wi, Imagine asking your picky friend “BUY WHIch white socks?”


• czarny, black, m, CHAR ni, Imagine your kids out in the black yard CHARring NIckels blue


• dom, house, m, dom, Imagine you live in a house that is a huge blue DOME.


• duży, large, m, DOO zhi, Imagine seeing a LARGE ant the size of a basketball and thinking, “Wow, that’s ant’s a DOOZY.”


• kolor, color, m, ko lor, Imagine your favorite color of crayon dancing a polka


• krzesło, chair, n, KZHES wo, Imagine CACHEd WOmb bats on your favorite yellow chair.


• kuchnia, kitchen, f, KOOKH ńa, Imagine a KOOK saying NYA, nya in your pink kitchen.


• kurtyna, curtain, f, koor TI na, Imagine a pink Polish CURTAIN.


• lampa, lamp, f, LAM pa, Imagine you have a pink polish LAMP, AH.


• łazienka, bathroom, f, wa źHEN ka, Imagine WASHING KAle in your pink


• bathroom, łóżko, bed, n, WOOZH ko, Imagine a bed WOOSH GOing through the air.


• lustro, mirror, n, LOOS tro, Imagine a LOOSE TROll looking at you from your mirror.


• ma, has, verb


• mały, little, m, MA wi, Imagine your MA WIll be really LITTLE when she is a grandma.


• młody, young, m, MWO di, Image moM WOn’t DIng the YOUNG car.


• niebieski, blue, m, ńe BYES kee, Imagine that you’ll NEver BE keen to SKI on blue snow


• ogród, garden, m, O groot, Imagine looking at your garden and thinking “OH GOOD no weeds.”


• okno, window, n, O kno, Imagine saying “ACH NO” the baseball just went through the WINDOW.


• pokój, room, m, PO kooy, Imagine you POKE Your head into a blue room.


• radio,r adio, n, RA dyo, Imagine having a yellow polish RA DIO.


• salon, living room, m, SA lon, Imagine your blue living room is beauty SALON.


• stoł, table, m, STO w, Imagine STOring your blue table in a Wagon.


• szari, gray, m, SHA ri, Imagine your friend SHARI wearing an unflattering, drab, shapeless, gray dress


• szerweny, red, m, sher ve ni, Imagine saying to your friend, “SURE BENNY we can buy red hats.”


• taboret, stool, m, ta BO ret, Imagine using a small TABORET drum as a stool.,


• tani, cheap, m, TA ńee,Imagine your friend TANYa NEEds you to help her find a CHEAP dress.


• tapczan, couch, m, TAP chan, Imagine you have the TOP CHAnce to win a couch in a contest.


• telefon, telephone, m, te LE fon, Imagine a blue Polish TELEPHONE.


• telewizor, TV set, m, te le VEE zor, Imagine your blue TELEVIsion SOARing through the sky.


• toaleta, toilet, f, to a LE ta, Imagine a TOE And LETA trying to find a TOILET.


• wolny, free, m, VOL ni, Imagine a VOLE NIbbling on a FREE sample of worms.


• zegar, clock, m, ZE gar, Imagine a blue CLOCK shaped liked a CIGAR.


• zielony, green, m, źhe LO ni, Imagine being all by yourself in a green room and thinking it’s SURE LONELY here.


• żółty, yellow, m, ZHOOW ti, Imagine your friend JUDY wearing a bright yellow pantsuit.

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