sens
sense (meaning, reason, or value of something) / point (purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- sensy
Curated dictionary
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Explore 100 random words, or search the course dictionary in Polish or English. This is a phrasebook and learning reference—not unrestricted machine translation.
niepewny
uncertain (questionable) / uncertain (undecided)
- Part of speech
- adjective
zainstalować
to install (to set something up for use) / to accommodate, to adapt oneself
- Part of speech
- verb
dział
section / division
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- działy
krzyczeć
to shout
- Part of speech
- verb
czerwiec
scale insect (any insect of the superfamily Coccoidea)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine animate
- Plural
- czerwce
królewski
royal, king
- Part of speech
- adjective
niemiecki
German
- Part of speech
- adjective
finał
finale, end, ending (last of a certain sequence of events) / final (last round, game, or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- finały
wisieć
to hang; to be suspended / to owe someone money
- Part of speech
- verb
gwiazda
star (luminous celestial body) / star (celebrity)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- gwiazdy
objaw
symptom (something that indicates a disease or disorder)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- objawy
aktorka
female equivalent of aktor (“actor, actress”) (person who performs in a theatrical play or film) / female equivalent of aktor (“actor”) (one who takes part in a situation)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- aktorki
kilka
any clupeid fish of the genus Clupeonella
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- kilki
świeca
candle (a light source) / sarvangasana
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- świece
niezwykły
extraordinary / phenomenal, remarkable
- Part of speech
- adjective
dotykać
to touch (make physical contact with) / to touch (to affect emotionally)
- Part of speech
- verb
zaznaczyć
to mark, to indicate / to stress, to emphasise, to highlight
- Part of speech
- verb
tom
volume (single book of a publication issued in multi-book format)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- tomy
świadczyć
to witness; to be indicative, to be a sign of, to indicate, to prove, to evince, to testify, to betoken, to bear witness to, to speak to (to prove with one's existence) / to be indicative, to indicate, to prove, to evince, to testify, to betoken, to bear witness to, to speak to (to cause someone to
- Part of speech
- verb
trudność
difficulty (state of being difficult, or hard to do) / difficulty (inability to do something successfully in a way that does not require great mental or physical effort)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- trudności
skuteczny
effective, efficacious, effectual
- Part of speech
- adjective
biały
white
- Part of speech
- adjective
cykl
cycle (of events) / cycle (of printed books, etc.)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- cykle
operacja
operation / surgery (procedure involving major incisions)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- operacje
góra
at most, tops
- Part of speech
- other
południe
noon; midday (time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks) / noon; midday (middle of the day)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- neuter
- Plural
- południa
przedstawiać
to introduce (to cause someone to be acquainted with someone else) / to introduce; to present, to put forward (to make something or someone known by announcement or recommendation)
- Part of speech
- verb
ogłaszać
to announce, to declare / to publish, to issue
- Part of speech
- verb
modny
fashionable
- Part of speech
- adjective
intelektualista
intellectual, thinker / intellectualist
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine personal
- Plural
- intelektualiści
rozszerzyć
to broaden, to widen, to expand / to expand, to dilate
- Part of speech
- verb
jakoby
allegedly
- Part of speech
- other
blok
block (cuboid piece of hard material) / apartment building, block, block of flats, tower block
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- bloki
miasto
city / town
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- neuter
- Plural
- miasta
zgoda
consent, agreement (state of understanding)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
wójt
government clerk; overlord of a rural commune
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine personal
- Plural
- wójtowie
włos
hair (pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals) / hair (mass of filaments of keratin on the human head)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- włosy
lokator
dweller, tenant (inhabitant of a building or flat who does not own it)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine personal
- Plural
- lokatorzy
prawny
legal, having its basis in law
- Part of speech
- adjective
piątek
Friday
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- piątki
bezpieczeństwo
safety, security (condition of being safe) / safety, security (feeling of being safe)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- neuter
paszport
passport
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- paszporty
obok
beside, next to, near / besides, outside of
- Part of speech
- preposition
najwięcej
superlative degree of dużo or wiele; most
- Part of speech
- adverb
podnieść
to pick up, to raise, to lift, to uplift, to elevate (physically or metaphorically) / to put up (to place in a high location)
- Part of speech
- verb
mylić
to confound, to confuse, to mix up, to mistake / to make a mistake, to err, to slip up
- Part of speech
- verb
droga
road (surface with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions) / village road
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- drogi
odeprzeć
to resist, to withstand / to disprove or deny an allegation
- Part of speech
- verb
złożony
complex, composite, compound (comprised of multiple elements) / complex, intricate, complicated (not simple; difficult to understand or do)
- Part of speech
- adjective
ewentualny
potential, hypothetical
- Part of speech
- adjective
rozebrać
to undress (to remove clothes) / to dismantle, to take apart
- Part of speech
- verb
ścieżka
trail / path (a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- ścieżki
dotacja
bailout, grant, subsidy (financial support)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- dotacje
żołnierz
soldier (member of an army) / private (soldier of the lowest rank in the army)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine personal
- Plural
- żołnierze
mecz
match (a competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- mecze
dolar
dollar (designation for specific currency) / dollar (unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine animate
- Plural
- dolary
mowa
word! (truth, indeed, that is the truth!)
- Part of speech
- other
recenzja
review
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- recenzje
nałożyć
to apply, to put on, to dab (e.g. sunscreen) [with instrumental ‘with what’] / to put on, to dress (to put clothing either on oneself or another) [with dative ‘whom’]
- Part of speech
- verb
zeszły
last (most recent)
- Part of speech
- adjective
rola
role (function, position, or expected behaviour of something)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- role
oryginalny
original (first in a series or copies/versions; initial) / original (fresh, different)
- Part of speech
- adjective
obudzić
to wake (to make somebody stop sleeping) / to get someone up
- Part of speech
- verb
gwałt
rape (act of forcibly having sex with someone) / any illegal act of violence
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- gwałty
przydać
to impart, to imbue (bestow some quality or property) / to come in handy, to be useful
- Part of speech
- verb
spółdzielnia
cooperative, co-op, collective (any co-operative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking, or worker cooperatives) / co-op (any shop owned by a co-operative)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- spółdzielnie
firma
company (in legal context, a corporation)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- firmy
zgłoszenie
verbal noun of zgłosić
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- neuter
bez
without
- Part of speech
- preposition
Governs the genitive.
zaufanie
trust
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- neuter
umierać
to die (to stop living)
- Part of speech
- verb
dyscyplina
discipline, self-control, rigour / discipline, field, subject
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- dyscypliny
terytorium
territory
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- neuter
- Plural
- terytoria
przewrócić
to overturn, to upend, to knock over / to fall over, to tip, to topple
- Part of speech
- verb
świąteczny
festive, holiday
- Part of speech
- adjective
sugerować
to suggest, to prompt / to imply
- Part of speech
- verb
jednak
expressing an unexpected situation; after all / indeed, really, actually
- Part of speech
- other
wskaźnik
indicator (object that shows things on a map, drawing, etc.) / pointer (icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- wskaźniki
dyżur
shift, duty (state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task) / shift, duty (period of doing a particular task)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- dyżury
bank
bank
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- banki
zapoznać
to acquaint, to familiarise / to get acquainted, to become familiar
- Part of speech
- verb
kawał
joke (amusing story) / joke (something said or done for amusement)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- kawały
wysunąć
to protrude, to exsert, to stick out / to propound, to propose
- Part of speech
- verb
wkroczyć
to enter (to appear in some new place or field)
- Part of speech
- verb
zamieszkanie
residence (place where one lives)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- neuter
- Plural
- zamieszkania
facet
guy, fellow, chap
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine personal
- Plural
- faceci
edukacja
education (process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- edukacje
ubierać
to dress (to clothe something/somebody) / to dress up (to make more appealing or change or omit details to be less bad)
- Part of speech
- verb
siedzieć
to sit (to be positioned on one's buttocks) / to sit (to have one's weight on the buttocks or on one's hind legs)
- Part of speech
- verb
planować
to plan (to create a plan for)
- Part of speech
- verb
natychmiastowy
immediate, instantaneous
- Part of speech
- adjective
mina
mine (device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person)
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- feminine
- Plural
- miny
kabel
cable (large wire or rope) / snitch, informant
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine inanimate
- Plural
- kable
zawieść
to fail; to be unsuccessful / to fail; to cease to operate correctly
- Part of speech
- verb
bawić
to amuse (to cause a feeling of lightheartedness or humor) / to entertain (to cause pleasure)
- Part of speech
- verb
sprowadzić
to bring, to fetch / to import
- Part of speech
- verb
wzdłuż
along (by the length, in a line with the length, lengthwise)
- Part of speech
- preposition
interesować
to interest (to attract attention or concern) / to be interested
- Part of speech
- verb
przeznaczenie
destiny, fate
- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- neuter