Wigilia notes

Wigilia na Syberii. 1892. 

Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) 

These are some notes from our class on 12.12.2016:

Wigilia - Christmas Eve

danie / dania (pl.) / dań (genitive plural)

     Ile jest dań na wigilijnym stole? How many dishes are there on the Christmas Eve table?
           
          NB: Use a singular verb after "ile" (how much, how many), and genitive:

                    - Ile książek?  How many books?
                    - Ile dań? How many dishes?
                    - Ile czasu? How much time?

Jest dwanaście dań.  There are twelve dishes.

One of them is karp:

Autor: Piotr Frydecki. Wikimedia Commons.

"Nie ma Wigilii w Polsce bez karpia smażonego - to tradycja."

There is no Christmas Eve in Poland without fried carp -- that's a tradition.

(Notice nie ma = genitive and also  bez + genitive)

We also reviewed the numbers between 10 and 20:

jedenaście
dwanaście
trzynaście
czternaście
piętnaście
szesnaście
siedemnaście
osiemnaście
dziewiętnaście

And noted that -

a teenager in Polish is a nastolatek. So they get two extra years of this charming period!