Learn how to talk about being hungry and thirsty
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Eric: Hi everyone, and welcome back to PolishPod101.com. This is Lower Beginner Season 1 Lesson 5 - Feeling the Hunger in Poland. Eric here. |
| Marzena: Cześć. I'm Marzena. |
| Eric: In this lesson you’ll learn how to talk about hunger and thirst. The conversation takes place at a coffee shop. |
| Marzena: It's between Kasia and Felipe. |
| Eric: The speakers are co-workers, so they’ll be using informal Polish. Okay, let's listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Kasia: Jesteś głodny? |
| Felipe: Trochę i chce mi się pić. |
| Kasia: A co chcesz zjeść? |
| Felipe: Bardzo lubię pierogi. |
| Kasia: O, świetnie! Tutaj jest dobra pierogarnia. Lubisz pierogi ruskie? |
| Felipe: Tak, bardzo. |
| Eric: Listen to the conversation one time slowly. |
| Kasia: Jesteś głodny? |
| Felipe: Trochę i chce mi się pić. |
| Kasia: A co chcesz zjeść? |
| Felipe: Bardzo lubię pierogi. |
| Kasia: O, świetnie! Tutaj jest dobra pierogarnia. Lubisz pierogi ruskie? |
| Felipe: Tak, bardzo. |
| Eric: Listen to the conversation with the English translation. |
| Kasia: Are you hungry? |
| Felipe: A little bit, and I'm thirsty. |
| Kasia: What would you like to eat? |
| Felipe: I really like pierogis. |
| Kasia: Oh, that's great! There’s a good dumpling restaurant here. Do you like “Russian dumplings”? |
| Felipe: Yes, a lot. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Eric: Marzena, those dumplings sound delicious. Can you tell us more about them? |
| Marzena: Pierogi are a very traditional Polish dish. |
| Eric: How are they made? |
| Marzena: You take unleavened dough, roll it out and cut it into circles. Then you spoon some filling into the center and fold the circles over into halves. Usually you serve pierogi freshly boiled, but if you leave the boiled ones for the next day some people like to fry them before eating. They’re served with melted butter and fried onion or sour cream, and sometimes even with melted lard. |
| Eric: It sounds like quite a hearty meal! |
| Marzena: It is! There are many types, for example pierogi z kapustą i grzybami |
| Eric: "dumplings with sauerkraut and mushrooms," |
| Marzena: pierogi z mięsem |
| Eric: "dumplings with meat." What about the “Russian dumplings” they were talking about? |
| Marzena: ruskie pierogi. There are also other kinds of summer pierogi that have fruit fillings, such as blueberries or cherries. These are only boiled and serve with sugar or sour cream. |
| Eric: Do people cook them at home? |
| Marzena: Sometimes, but it takes a lot of time, so the easiest way to try them is by going to the pierogarnia. |
| Eric: That’s a restaurant specializing in dumplings. Make sure you try it out, listeners! Okay, now onto the vocab. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Eric: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Marzena: głodny [natural native speed] |
| Eric: hungry |
| Marzena: głodny[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Marzena: głodny [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Marzena: trochę [natural native speed] |
| Eric: a little |
| Marzena: trochę[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Marzena: trochę [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Marzena: co [natural native speed] |
| Eric: what |
| Marzena: co[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Marzena: co [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Marzena: jeść [natural native speed] |
| Eric: to eat |
| Marzena: jeść[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Marzena: jeść [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Marzena: pierogi [natural native speed] |
| Eric: "dumplings" |
| Marzena: pierogi[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Marzena: pierogi [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Marzena: świetnie [natural native speed] |
| Eric: great |
| Marzena: świetnie[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Marzena: świetnie [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next we have.. |
| Marzena: pierogarnia [natural native speed] |
| Eric: dumpling restaurant |
| Marzena: pierogarnia[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Marzena: pierogarnia [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Eric: Let's have a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Marzena: świetnie |
| Eric: meaning "great." |
| Marzena: It’s an adverb, but it can also be used as an adjective, świetny for masculine, świetna for feminine, or świetne for the neuter. |
| Eric: It's a rather colloquial word, so you shouldn’t use it in a formal setting. If you’re with friends, though, you can use it whenever you like in response to what another person said or an idea they’ve proposed. |
| Marzena: It can also be used sarcastically, when you’re actually not pleased with something. |
| Eric: The most important thing to keep in mind is to use proper intonation and voice, so that it’s clear if you’re being sarcastic or sincere. Marzena, can you give us an example using this word in a positive way? |
| Marzena: Sure. For example, you can say.. Świetnie się bawię na tej imprezie! |
| Eric: ..which means "I'm having great fun at this party." Okay, what's the next word? |
| Marzena: pierogi ruskie |
| Eric: meaning "Russian dumplings." |
| Marzena: “Dumplings” is actually just an approximate translation, because pierogi are a little different from dumplings. |
| Eric: Is there anything we should know about the grammar of this word? |
| Marzena: The noun pierogi is in its plural form and its singular form, pieróg, is rare. Pieróg sounds like another kind of dish. |
| Eric: Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Marzena: Sure. For example, you can say.. Moje ulubione polskie danie to pierogi ruskie. |
| Eric: .. which means "My favourite Polish dish is Russian dumplings." Okay, now onto the lesson focus. |
Lesson focus |
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| Eric: In this lesson, you'll learn how to talk about hunger and thirst. Let’s start with hunger. |
| Marzena: As you should remember, gender is very important in Polish, so the form of the question will depend on whether you’re asking a man or a woman. |
| Eric: So when you ask a woman “Are you hungry?”, you have to say... |
| Marzena: Czy jesteś głodna? |
| Eric: And if you want to ask a man? |
| Marzena: Czy jesteś głodny? |
| Eric: Let’s break down the question. |
| Marzena: First we start with the question marker czy which has no meaning. Its only function is to indicate a question... |
| Eric: ...just like “do” or “does” in English. |
| Marzena: Right. Poles often omit the word, because even without it we can still understand that something is a question, not a statement. Also in many cases questions starting with czy sound a little bit unnatural and stiff. So we can ask the question in the same way as Kasia in the dialogue, simply by saying Jesteś głodny? |
| Eric: What are the following words? |
| Marzena: The next word in the question is jesteś, which means “you are,” and it’s in the second person singular form, because we’re directing it to another person. And last is the adjective “hungry,” which is głodny for a man or głodna for a woman. |
| Eric: How can we handle the question? |
| Marzena: To answer the question, you can just say tak, meaning “yes,” or nie, meaning “no.” |
| Eric: What about if you want to give a different answer, like “Not yet”? |
| Marzena: Jeszcze nie |
| Eric: or “Very much.” |
| Marzena: Bardzo. |
| Eric: On the other hand, if you want to say that you’re hungry without being prompted, what can you say? |
| Marzena: you’ll have to use the verb być, “to be,” in the first person singular form, followed by the adjective głodny or głodna which means “hungry.” It’s Jestem głodna, if you’re a woman, or Jestem głodny, if you’re a man. Another way to say you’re hungry is Umieram z głodu |
| Eric: Which means “I’m dying of starvation.” |
| Marzena: We can use the same expression to say we are “dying” of other things, too, like thirst, which is umieram z pragnienia, or dying of boredom, umieram z nudów. |
| Eric: Ok, good to know! Now let’s take a look at how to ask if someone is thirsty. |
| Marzena: It is slightly different from asking someone if they’re hungry. “Are you thirsty?” in Polish is Chce ci się pić? The question is making use of the verb chcieć, meaning “to want,” followed by the phrase chce ci się, |
| Eric: This form can’t really be translated in English, so the fastest way to learn how to use it is to memorize it. |
| Marzena: That’s right. For now, keep in mind that it’s used whenever we haven’t made a conscious choice about an action. |
| Eric: Like in cases of hunger and thirst, we don’t choose to feel hungry, we just do. |
| Marzena: In these cases, we use the phrase chce mi się, or the opposite, when you don’t feel like something, nie chce mi się. |
| Eric: To recap, “Are you thirsty?” in Polish is |
| Marzena: Chce ci się pić? |
| Eric: To answer this question with “I’m thirsty” you have to say |
| Marzena: Chce mi się pić. |
| Eric: If you want to answer “A little bit...” |
| Marzena: You can say Trochę. |
| Eric: And if you’re not thirsty? |
| Marzena: Nie chce mi się pić. As we said, the phrase chce mi się can be used also with hunger, Chce mi się jeść. Please note that jeść is a verb that means “to eat” and pić means “to drink”. |
Outro |
| Eric: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye! |
| Marzena: Do widzenia. |
Comments
HideHi Listeners! Have you ever tried pierogi?
Cześć Jessie!
Thank you for your post! I do not quite understand the Polish sentence you wrote. Would you mind writing the sentence in English, please? ;) Then I will be able to help you with the grammar :)
Miłego dnia :)
Pozdrowienia,
Łukasz
Team PolishPod101.com
Kapitan Kapusta jest stawanie na obsługi do gotówania pierogów.
I might need help to understand the grammar here, not sure if I need to use ‘jest’ or ‘do’ here either.
Cześć Diana!
Thank you for sharing! Pierogi są najlepsze! :)
Miłego dnia :)
Pozdrowienia,
Łukasz
Team PolishPod.101.com
Tak, bardzo lubię pierogi. Wolę pierogi z mięsem z cebulą smażoną i surówką z białej i czerwonej kapusty.
Cześć Roger!
Thank you for leaving your comment! How did you like your pierogi? :) In Polish, your comment would be "Tak, jadłem pierogi. Mój syn mieszka w Polsce." :)
Miłego dnia :)
Pozdrowienia,
Łukasz
Team PolishPod101.com
Yes I have eaten Pierogi. My son lives in Poland. I must try to write comments in Polish!
Most of the words are familiar. Understood 70% first listen. Some words are new and difficult to pronounce. The lessons are a good discipline to improve knowledge and improve listening and speaking.
Cześć Ed!
Grammatically both of these phrases are correct, and mean practically the same, but they differ in sentence structure:
"Ja chcę pić" is a sentence in which the subject (Ja - I) expresses his desire to drink. This is a simple sentence with the structure: [subject] [verb] [object].
"Chce mi się pić" is an expression that means that someone feels thirsty. The structure of this sentence is: [verb] [object] [possessive pronoun] [object]. In this case, "mi" is a possessive pronoun that indicates the person to whom the desire concerns (i.e. "mi" means "me").
In summary, the first sentence focuses on expressing the speaker's thirst, while the second sentence describes the person's feeling of thirst.
Miłego dnia :)
Pozdrowienia
Łukasz
Team PolishPod101.com
In this lesson the word chce is used repeatedly in examples that would require 1st person singular eg: Felipe: Trochę i chce mi się pić. However, when I go to other sites and look at the conjugation of chcieć, first person singular is shown as chcę. Can someone clarify for me?
Cześć Shah!
Thank you for your question!
Yes, you can use "chce mi się" with other activities :)
For example:
- Chce mi się biegać - I feel like running.
- Chce mi się czytać - I feel like reading etc.
Should you have any other questions, feel free to contact us!
Miłego dnia :)
Pozdrowienia,
Łukasz
Team PolishPod101.com
Can I use chce mi się for other activities?
Chce mi się gry = I feel like playing?
Chce mi się oglądać TV = I feel like watching TV?
Hello Wissam!
Thank you for your comment :)
The dialogue is correct. Let's just see why.
A: Jesteś głodny? (Are you hungry?)
B: Trochę (A little bit - meaning - a little bit hungry) i chce mi się pić (and I'm thirsty).
I hope this explanation is helpful.
Pozdrowienia,
Łukasz
Team PolishPod101.com
hi,
this is Wissam.
was it right in the dialogue when the man said( in 2nd line): '"Trochę i chce mi się pić.'"?
is not the right way to say: chcę mi się pić
z góry dziękuję
Cześć AD,
Thank you for studying with us.
"chcę (mi) się pić" or "chcesz (ci) się pić" are incorrect. We do not conjugate "chce" in this sentence. We use mi/ci/jej/nam, etc., but "chce" is always in the same form.
Chce mi się pić.
Chce jej się pić.
Chce nam się pić.
Should you have any questions, please let us know.
Sincerely,
Hanna
Team PolishPod101.com
Przepraszam, mam pytanie o "chce ci się pić" -
Is it ever okay to conjugate chcieć in this sentence? For example, would you ever see "chcę (mi) się pić" or "chcesz (ci) się pić"?
Dzięki!
Hello Andrew,
yes, indeed, we like sarcastic sense of humour a lot in Poland.
For example, if someone asks you to do something, but you don't feel like doing it, or you just think it's a really bad idea, you often say "jasne, już pędzę", meaning: "yeah, right, I'm running as fast as I can (to do whatever you want me to)", or "już lecę" (a bit similar, but meaning "I'm flying" rather than "running"). This should make your friend realise that he/she is being completely ridiculous. :wink:
(Naturally, you wouldn't say that to a person you respect or in a formal situation).
Regards,
Katarzyna
Team PolishPod101
Hi all, I really enjoyed this one due to my Polish friends being so sarcastic and the term for dying of boredom will come in very handy.
Hi Andy,
That sound great! Do you like to eat them? :thumbsup:
If you wanna say that she making pierogi every year you should say : " Moja mama robi jpierogi co rok"
Keep learning!! :smile:
Regards,
Karolina
Team PolishPod101
Tak, moje mama zrobiła pierogi co rok.
Yes, my mother made pierogis every year.