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POLISH definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

There are numerous words in both Polish and Yiddish languages which are near-identical due to the large Jewish minority that once inhabited Poland. One example is the fishing rod, ווענטקע , borrowed directly from Polish wędka. Depending on the historical period, borrowing has proceeded from various languages. Notable influences have been Latin (10th–18th centuries), Czech (10th and 14th–15th centuries), Italian (16th–17th centuries), French (17th–19th centuries), German (13–15th and 18th–20th centuries), Hungarian (15th–16th centuries) and Turkish .

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Latin was known to a larger or smaller degree by most of the numerous szlachta in the 16th to 18th centuries . Apart from dozens of loanwords, its influence can also be seen in a number of verbatim Latin phrases in Polish literature . During the 12th and 13th centuries, Mongolian words were brought to the Polish language during wars with the armies of Genghis Khan and his descendants, e.g. dzida and szereg . Polish is a highly fusional language with relatively free word order, although the dominant arrangement is subject–verb–object . There are no articles, and subject pronouns are often dropped. There are certain clusters where a written consonant would not be pronounced.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of Poland, its inhabitants, or their language. Colson Baker, better known as Machine Gun Kelly, just came out with his own nail polish line. The Jennifer's Body actress also showed her love for Kelly through nail accessories last month, when they were linked together by their pinky nails with a thin silver chain at the launch party for his own nail polish line, UN/DN LAQR.

Most Polish words are paroxytones (that is, the stress falls on the second-to-last syllable of a polysyllabic word), although there are exceptions. Neutralization occurs between voiced–voiceless consonant pairs in certain environments, at the end of words and in certain consonant clusters . For details, see Voicing and devoicing in the article on Polish phonology. Many Poles living in emigrant communities , whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as spoken in the first half of the 20th century that now sound archaic to contemporary visitors from Poland. The distinctive dialect of the Gorals (Góralski) occurs in the mountainous area bordering the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

In addition, word endings are liberally applied to almost any word to produce verbs, nouns, adjectives, as well as adding the appropriate endings for cases of nouns, adjectives, diminutives, double-diminutives, augmentatives, etc. Passive-type constructions can be made using the auxiliary być or zostać ("become") with the passive participle. There is also an impersonal construction where the active verb is used with no subject, but with the reflexive pronoun się present to indicate a general, unspecified subject (as in pije się wódkę "vodka is being drunk"—note that wódka appears in the accusative). A similar sentence type in the past tense uses the passive participle with the ending -o, as in widziano ludzi ("people were seen").

In the northern and western regions where Poles from the territories annexed by the Soviet Union resettled after World War II, the older generation speaks a dialect of Polish characteristic of the Kresy that includes a longer pronunciation of vowels. The geographical distribution of the Polish language was greatly affected by the territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II and Polish population transfers (1944–46). Poles settled in the "Recovered Territories" in the west and north, which had previously been mostly German-speaking.

Many words were borrowed from the German language from the sizable German population in polish cities during medieval times. German words found in the Polish language are often connected with trade, the building industry, civic rights and city life. Some words were assimilated verbatim, for example handel and dach ; others are pronounced similarly, but differ in writing Schnur—sznur .

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