How do you say you in polish?

Answer 1

It depends on who you are addressing and your relationship with this person, as well as the case of this pronoun, which depends on the position in the sentense, because in Polish we flex almost all parts of speach. Nouns and pronouns have seven cases, separately for singular and plural modes.

One of the Polish forms of "you" is 'ty'- a singular and very familiar form used only within family and close friends (now more popular among young people), with the plural mode 'wy' [pronounced vi: with a hard i: as in video], which some people also use towards a single person in more formal settings, but it has a "communist" connotation, since it was introduced as the proper form of addressing communist party members. We alter cases in the following way:

Singular Plural

1. ty wy

2. ciebie was

3. tobie wam

4. ciebie was

5. tobą wami

6. tobie was

7. ty! wy!

Much more popular and more polite is to address a stranger on the street using a title "Pan" (men) or "Pani" (woman), with three plural versions depending on the gender of the group: "Panowie" (men only), "Panie" (women only), and "Panstwo" (a couple).

The best English equivalents for "Pan" would be Mister, Sir or Lord, and yes, it does have feudal origins.