Ch 3 English/ Polish Wordlist

English - Polish - Gender - Pronunciation - Menomic

• and - i - n/a - ee - Imagine shrieking, EEk! AND there is a mouse!
• baby - niemowię - n - ńe MO vlan - Imagine the BABY saying NO MORE VAN.
• birthday - urodziny - n - oo ro DźHEE ni - OO, RODNEY’S BIRTHDAY is today.
• blouse - bluzka - f - BLOOZ ka - Imagine a BLOUSE the color of the BLUE SKy.
• boy - chłopiec -m - KHWO phets -Imagine the BOY yelling WOW PETS at the pet store
• brother -brat -m -BRAT -Imagine your friend’s BROTHER is a really brat who eats all the BRATs
• cap -czapka -f -CHAP ka -Imagine that a CHAP CAn wear your cap.
• coat -płaszcz -m -PWASHCH -Imagine asking the dry cleaner to please WASH CHarlie’s COAT.
• daughter -córka -f -TSOOR ka -Imagine your DAUGHTER loves the CIRCUs.
• door -drzwi -n -DZHVEE -DoeS VIctor like the new DOOR?
• far away -daleko -n/a -da LE ko -DAd LEt gO when you got to FAR AWAY.
• far from -daleko od -n/a -da LE ko od -FAR FROM DALI COnes look ODD.
• father -ojciec -m -OY ćhets -Imagine your DAD who loves chess crying out in joy, “OH CHESS” when he sees a chessboard.
• from -od -n/a -od -That’s ODD, I thought you were FROM here.
• girl -dziewczyna -f -dźhev CHI na -Imagine a GIRL in DSHED in CHINA.
• holiday -wakacje -pl. -va KATS ye -There are VAcant COTS YEs because everyone is on VACATION.
• husband -mąż -m -mownsh -Imagine your HUSBAND, showing you the lawn MOWN SHort.
• mother -matka -f -MAT ka -Imagine your MOM saying “MAT CAn do that.”
• near -blisko -n/a -BLEES ko -It’s sheer BLISS COming NEAR the lake on a hot day.
• next to -obok -n/a -O bok -Look for it NEXT TO the “O” BOoK.
• no -nie -n/a -ńe -Imagine a sign saying NO riding in the caNYon.
• not -nie -n/a -ńe -Imagine that you’re NOT going fire the caNYon during the 4th of July.
• pajamas -piżama -f -pee ZAH ma -Imagine buying PAJAMAS from Poland
• scissors -nożyczki -pl. -no ZHICH kee -NO STITCH so KEEN can be cut with a scissors.
• shoe -but -m -BOOT -Imagine calling your SHOE a BOOT
• shorts -szorty -pl. -SHOR ti -Only a SHORTY can wear SHORTS.
• sister -siostra -f -śHOS tra -Imagine your SISTER, SO STROng, beating all the boys in arm wrestling.
• skirt -spódnica -f- spood ńEE tsa- Imagine wearing a SPUD NEATly SOwn on your SKIRT.
• son -syn -m -SIN- Imagine your SON is more handsome than SIN.
• stairs -schody- pl. -SKHO di- SCOLD DILlon for cluttering up the STAIRS again.
• sweater- sweter -m -SVE ter- Imagine wearing a Polish SWEATER.
• tie- krawat- m- KRA vat- Imagine calling your Polish TIE, a CRAVAT.
• trousers- spodnie- pl.- SPOD ńe- A SPUD Never makes good TROUSERS.
• twins- bliźnięta- pl.- bleeźh ńAN ta- BLEACH NAN Til her hair is white so that she will look like her TWIN.
• wife- żona- f- ZHO na- Imagine your WIFE named JOAN NAturally.
• without- bez- n/a- bes- It’s BESt to be WITHOUT some things.
• yes- tak- n/a- TAK- Imagine saying YES, I’d like listening to the clock going tick, TOCK, tick TOCK.

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