Comments on: What is the name Nicholas in the Polish language? http://www.talkpolish.info/what-is-the-name-nicholas-in-the-polish-language.htm Learn how to speak Polish Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:29:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: pepsimonster2002 http://www.talkpolish.info/what-is-the-name-nicholas-in-the-polish-language.htm/comment-page-1#comment-597 pepsimonster2002 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:21:05 +0000 http://www.talkpolish.info/what-is-the-name-nicholas-in-the-polish-language.htm#comment-597 Mikołaj is the name. As for Mikołaja it will depend on the context. It can either be sth that belongs to Mikołaj or a way of marking grammatical case which is codified in the morphology of the noun in the case of the Polish language. So the ending reflects the case. So Mikołaja in a sentence such as: dzieci nie wierzą w Mikołaja will just be translated as kids don't believe in Santa ;) hope that helps you out :) Mikołaj is the name.
As for Mikołaja it will depend on the context. It can either be sth that belongs to Mikołaj or a way of marking grammatical case which is codified in the morphology of the noun in the case of the Polish language. So the ending reflects the case. So Mikołaja in a sentence such as: dzieci nie wierzą w Mikołaja will just be translated as kids don’t believe in Santa ;)

hope that helps you out :)

]]> By: Tomasz W http://www.talkpolish.info/what-is-the-name-nicholas-in-the-polish-language.htm/comment-page-1#comment-598 Tomasz W Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:21:05 +0000 http://www.talkpolish.info/what-is-the-name-nicholas-in-the-polish-language.htm#comment-598 Polish language has a case system, so nouns have different forms depending on grammatical role, like verbs in English. It goes like this: N. "Mikołaj" - "Nicholas" (as subject and in neutral context) G. "Mikołaja" - "Nicholas's" D. "Mikołajowi" - "to Nicholas" A. "Mikołaja" - "Nicholas" (as sentence's object) I. "Mikołajem" - form used with some prepositions, without prepositions it means "using Nicholas", but it's not really used like that with people. "z Mikołajem" = "wich Nicholas" etc. L. "Mikołaju" - form used only with some prepositions, "w Mikołaju" - "in Nicholas", not used much with humans V. "Mikołaju" - "Nicholas" - it's a form used to address someone outside sentence like "Nicholas, come here" = "Mikołaju, chodź tu". Modern Polish uses Nominative form like "Mikołaj, chodź tu" almost exclusively for proper names. Polish language has a case system, so nouns have different forms depending on grammatical role, like verbs in English. It goes like this:

N. "Mikołaj" – "Nicholas" (as subject and in neutral context)
G. "Mikołaja" – "Nicholas’s"
D. "Mikołajowi" – "to Nicholas"
A. "Mikołaja" – "Nicholas" (as sentence’s object)
I. "Mikołajem" – form used with some prepositions, without prepositions it means "using Nicholas", but it’s not really used like that with people. "z Mikołajem" = "wich Nicholas" etc.
L. "Mikołaju" – form used only with some prepositions, "w Mikołaju" – "in Nicholas", not used much with humans
V. "Mikołaju" – "Nicholas" – it’s a form used to address someone outside sentence like "Nicholas, come here" = "Mikołaju, chodź tu". Modern Polish uses Nominative form like "Mikołaj, chodź tu" almost exclusively for proper names.

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