Understanding The Difference Between WOLNY And ZAJĘTY In Polish

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Welcome to Learn Polish Podcast, episode number 472, 472.

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You go to va.world. And welcome again, Matt.

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Dzień dobry. Dzień dobry. Witam. Jak tam? Wszystko dobrze? Wszystko z porządku.

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Tak. Like, pogoda coraz piękniejsza. Yes? Like the water is getting better and better.

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Okay. So, today I'm going to teach you, I'm going to present you two adjectives,

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kind of antonyms, and how can you use it in your daily life.

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Basically, it is really cool because two adjectives, but every has three meanings.

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I invite you to listen. Roy, czy jesteś gotowy? I jestem.

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Bo nasi widzowie na pewno. Dobrze.

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Dzisiaj rozmawiamy o dwóch przymiotnikach. We are talking about two adjectives.

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Wolny i zajęty. Before I start, before I start, I want to ask Roya,

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have you heard these words? Yes.

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I think that the toilet would be like big, big, big is busy.

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Are you free? Time, for example. Is it free for a coffee, for example?

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I don't know. Is that correct?

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Okay, yes. So, plus minus.

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Zgadam się, I agree. I'm gonna show you when we can use them in all contexts.

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Okay. So basically, as you said, to toilet or something is wolny, free, free. Yeah.

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Okay. We start from the word wolne.

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Wolne, wolne, wolne. Means free.

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Jesteś wolny dzisiaj? Jesteś wolny dzisiaj, Roy? Yeah, it'll be a podcast.

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So basically, Jesteś wolny dzisiaj. For example, when we ask somebody, what are you doing?

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Yes, what are you doing today? Are you free today? Jesteś wolny dzisiaj?

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For example, also, czy to miejsce jest wolne?

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Is this seat is free? Yeah? Przykład na restaurację, tak?

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Restauracji, dokładnie, dokładnie. Albo na przykład w kinie. Yeah?

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Czy to miejsce jest wolne? Chyba tak.

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Nikt tu nie siedzi. Nobody sits here.

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Nobody is sitting here. Okay.

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Or, for example, stolik na prawo jest wolny. The table on the right is free. Exactly.

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Yes. The table on the right is free.

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So basically, the most common, let's say, meaning of this word is free.

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And below, you have also the noun from this word, which is wolność.

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Freedom. Wolność. Like miłość. Love. With the ending.

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Yes. Wolność. I w Łodzi jest Plac Wolności, Freedom Square. Oh,

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for example, exactly, exactly, dokładnie.

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Myślę, że nie tylko w Łodzi. I think they're not only in Łódz,

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many, many, many, probably cities also.

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Yeah, have. Yeah. And here, song, the band Łopcy z Placu z Broni.

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And the title of the song, tytuł piosenki, Kocham Wolność. I love freedom.

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Exactly, exactly.

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And also, dzień wolny, day off. To nie jest ona, sorry. It's not about us.

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Yeah? Basically, yes. Really, really common when it comes to day off.

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Yes? Like, dzień wolny, day off.

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Jutro mam dzień wolny. Może pójdziemy do kina.

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Jutro mam dzień wolny. Może pójdziemy do kina. Tomorrow, I have day off.

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Maybe we'll go to the cinema. Okay? Is it clear?

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But sometimes also we just say yes so wolne like in the plural is,

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Yes, dzień, but plural, dni. Wolne dni, days off.

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Dostałam wolne od szefa. Which means basically that I got some days off from my boss.

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Yeah, and it's really common. It's really common when it comes to...

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And Katie, it's masculine and feminine. Is it zawsze szefa?

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Szefa, yes. Good question. Szefa or szefowa. Yes?

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Yes, if it's girl, then szefowa. But szefa. Here is szefa, so it's from a man.

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Like the boss is probably, the company is the man.

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Not probably, for sure, na pewno.

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So dostałam wolne od szefa. Mogę robić co chcę.

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Maybe not whatever I want, but...

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Wolne, which is single, single, single, single.

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Yes, also it is common usage. Maybe not so common, but you know,

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guys, it depends on context.

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For example, when one of, okay, let's say we're around people and someone says, ona jest wolna.

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We can interpret it in two ways.

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Yes, she's a free, but also like she's a single. Yes, and probably it's that mean.

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Have you heard? Czy słyszałeś kiedyś o tym znaczeniu?

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Yeah, yeah, as a free. Free woman.

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When it's a man, then it's a wolne.

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Wolne, yes, yeah. So basically, wolne is a single.

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Yes, jestem wolna już rok, for example.

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Yeah, just like, I'm a single. Like, ready. One year.

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Ona jest fajna. Wolne also means slow.

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Okay? And if you're insulting somebody, like in Ireland, if we'd say, he's slow, he's .

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Can you say the same? Yeah.

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Basically, yes, later we'll also hear that it's not the last meaning of this

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word. Yes, he is thinking slowly.

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Yes, okay. So, żółwie są wolne. Which animal is it? Turtle.

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Turtle, exactly. Żółw. Żółw. Żółw jest dwóch.

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And then, because I've heard as well, because, just for my kid,

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it's like, when you put your fist together, that's a żółw, isn't it?

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Tak, żółwik, żółwik, exactly. It's a żółwik, żółwik, tak. Tak, żółwik, żółwik, yeah.

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Agree. Okay. And yes, as I said, I would like to stop for my wolno adverb.

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As a wolno. Okay, so for example, czemu jedziemy tak wolno?

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Czemu jedziemy tak wolno? Why are you going so slow? Why are you going so slow?

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Why are you going so slow?

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I want to switch to that. Can be, can be. Tak.

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So, czemu jedziemy tak wolno? Możesz przyspieszyć. Why are we going so slow? Can you speed up?

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Okay? So it's that meaning. Tak wolno.

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Ojejka, tak wolno. Tak wolno ta kolejka.

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Yes, like, so slow this queue is going. Yes, so this context.

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And sometimes you hear people saying, dawaj, dawaj, dawaj, like,

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go, go, get. Tak, tak, tak. Szybko, szybko. Yes, it's like antonym.

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Yes, szybko, szybko, like fast.

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Very free. Free. Free. Free. Free.

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Free.

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Free. when I'm on the phone, it's always a problem. It's like a routine.

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Yes, that's the other one.

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It's always a long way. It's always a long way. And it's always a long way.

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And you always listen to old people. Please, I was the first.

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Please, I was the first. I was the first place. It's in Poland.

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Exactly, it looks like that. Oh, yeah. I experienced. I experienced it.

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And what is more, also when it comes to things which you are not allowed to do. Okay?

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Nie wolno. Nie wolno, which means must not. Have you ever heard? Czy słyszałeś kiedyś?

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Nie wolno, yeah. Yes, sometimes to children, yes? People, like, for example, parents.

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Nie wolno tak robić. Yes? You can't do that.

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Yes, exactly. or mówić, because dzieci are honest.

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Children are honest. Dzieci są szczere. Too honest.

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Sometimes za szczere. So, nie wolno tak mówić. Nie wolno tak mówić.

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Or sometimes you can see some shots like tu nie wolno palić for example, yes?

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To smoke here. Yeah, for example.

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So worth remembering that this must not will be expressed as a niewolno. Yeah?

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Okay. And now, finally, the second adjective, which is zajęć. Do you know?

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Have you used? Używałeś kiedyś z tego słowa? Yes, busy.

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Busy, tak? For example, nie mogę teraz rozmawiać. Nie mogę teraz rozmawiać.

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I can't talk right now, yeah?

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Jestem zajęta. I have a lot to do.

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Yeah okay well po angielsku po

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dużo ludzi says marketing dla mnie like

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300 za tydzień tak zawsze ja mogę and i kiedy ja piszę i am busy zajęty then

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it's like yeah it's lepiej exactly exactly exactly so it's busy it's the most

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common meaning of this word jestem zajęta My teraz jesteśmy zajęci,

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because we are doing, we are making this podcast, yeah?

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We can say, recording, nagrywamy.

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Okay, where's more zajęty? Zajęty taken, yes? If the wolny was free, yeah?

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Then zajęty is taken.

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So, for example, I gave... So when somebody says, proszę pani,

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może daj mi twoje numer, telefon komakowy, idziemy na kina, and you go, nie.

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No, zajęta, zajęta, yes? So it doesn't mean that I'm busy.

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It means that I'm, that someone just stole my heart, yeah?

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Someone else. Okay.

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And so Ania jest taka fajna, like, Ania is so cool, yes?

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Chcę ją zaprosić na randkę.

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I would like to invite her, yes, on date.

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Michal, ona jest zajęta od ponad pół roku, yes?

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Like she's taking for like more than half a year, yes?

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So since even, yes, old. So what can I say more? Life, życie, yeah?

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And obviously a reminder that Zapraszać means invite.

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Even like when we start the class, I said something like zapraszam serdecznie.

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It's like I invite you like politely.

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Warmly is not a warmly. Warmly, yes, exactly. Exactly.

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So it's a really common phrase. Okay.

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Also, yes, the meaning, look, it's Roy's nose.

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Znaczenie, które Roy zna, zajęty, as occupied.

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Yes. Patrz, to miejsce jest już zajęte. Like, look, this place is already occupied. Yeah?

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Also, miejsce means sit, place, yeah

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or spot like parking spot yes let's

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let's park yeah okay so and

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also when it comes to toilet yeah when someone when

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you're inside and you get stressed how to

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say they're not inside you just say zayenta and

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it's enough yeah and just on that

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because i keep forgetting because normally you have male and female just like

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you have the picture but in poland you've got a circle and a triangle and every

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time i get it wrong i keep forgetting which is which because i even know i can't

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remember it's like this triangle or a circle which is the triangle is for yes Yes,

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I also remember from time to time, like, I forget from time to time also.

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Yes, sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget. I feel you. Rozumiem.

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No, dear. Okay. Okay. So, we have to sum up.

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Odsumowanie. Wolny, free, single, slow, zajęty, busy, taken,

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occupied. And to sum up, I'll ask my student, Roy.

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Give me one sentence with one of these words in context which you want.

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Jestem wolna, ale Tinder nie jest dobrze, so dlatego jestem wolna.

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Okay, can be, yes. I can say now as a feminine.

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Jestem wolna, ale Tinder nie jest dobre. Yes, it's what you did.

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To me. Yeah. So, as you can see, tak jak widzicie, Roy użył tego w kontekście

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związków, relationships, yeah, that he is a single.

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So. Dziękujemy. Dziękujemy za ten podcast. Thanks, Roy.

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Dziękujemy bardzo, Marta. So, you can, I'll make sure I put Marta's TikTok so

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