Polish lessons
Explore 100 free Polish lessons from A1 to B2. Learn vocabulary, verb forms, and grammar through complete examples and recall practice.
- Colors — A1 vocabulary: Describe familiar objects while matching adjective gender and number.
- Numbers 0–100 — A1 vocabulary: Use number words for prices, ages, addresses, and time.
- Family — A1 vocabulary: Introduce relatives with possessives and gendered family nouns.
- Kitchen basics — A1 vocabulary: Name tools and place them using na/w with the locative.
- Everyday food — A1 vocabulary: Build meals from common foods and direct-object forms.
- Drinks and ordering — A1 vocabulary: Order a drink politely and use container phrases with genitive.
- Rooms at home — A1 vocabulary: Locate activities with w + locative and learn common room forms.
- Clothes — A1 vocabulary: Describe what someone wears with mieć na sobie and adjective agreement.
- The body — A1 vocabulary: Name body parts and report pain with boleć or boli mnie.
- Weather — A1 vocabulary: Use impersonal jest, pada, wieje, and świeci for different conditions.
- Days of the week — A1 vocabulary: Place events on weekdays with w + accusative and habits with co.
- Months and seasons — A1 vocabulary: Use w + locative for months and seasons.
- Telling time — A1 vocabulary: Ask the time and schedule events with o + locative ordinal hour.
- Daily routine — A1 vocabulary: Sequence reflexive and ordinary actions through a normal day.
- Places in town — A1 vocabulary: Locate services relative to landmarks with case-governing prepositions.
- Transport — A1 vocabulary: Choose jechać for one vehicle trip, jeździć for habitual travel, and pieszo for walking.
- Travel essentials — A1 vocabulary: Combine destination, luggage, documents, booking, and accommodation.
- Classroom language — A1 vocabulary: Follow plural instructions and ask for clarification.
- Common animals — A1 vocabulary: Describe pets and animals while noticing animacy in the accusative.
- Greetings and introductions — A1 vocabulary: Choose time-appropriate greetings and formal pan/pani or informal ty.
- Być: present tense — A1 verb: Master identity, description, and location with six irregular forms.
- Mieć: present tense — A1 verb: Express possession, age, time, and common states.
- Iść: present tense — A1 verb: Use a suppletive present for one directed trip on foot.
- Robić: present tense — A1 verb: Use regular-looking forms for doing, making, and everyday tasks.
- Chcieć: present tense — A1 verb: Express wants and intentions with chc-/chcą forms.
- Móc: present tense — A1 verb: Express ability and possibility with mog-/moż- alternation.
- Mówić: present tense — A1 verb: Use mów- forms for languages, partners, and topics.
- Jeść: present tense — A1 verb: Use jem/jesz/je and understand accusative versus genitive under negation.
- Pić: present tense — A1 verb: Use pij- forms and practice drink objects in accusative.
- Mieszkać: present tense — A1 verb: State where someone lives with w + locative.
- Noun gender — A1 grammar: Infer common gender patterns but learn exceptions with adjective forms.
- The accusative case — A1 grammar: Mark direct objects and notice feminine -ę and masculine animate genitive-like forms.
- Instrumental after być — A1 grammar: Use instrumental for professions, roles, and national identity nouns after być.
- Subject omission and word order — A1 grammar: Let endings identify the subject and move time/place for emphasis without changing verb form.
- Negation and the genitive — A1 grammar: Change many accusative direct objects to genitive after a negated verb.
- Shopping and payment — A2 vocabulary: Ask about price, size, discount, payment, and returns.
- At a restaurant — A2 vocabulary: Reserve, order courses, and ask for the bill politely.
- Giving directions — A2 vocabulary: Build a route from commands, turns, crossings, and landmarks.
- Hotel stays — A2 vocabulary: Confirm a booking and report missing or broken room items.
- At the airport — A2 vocabulary: Follow check-in, baggage, gate, delay, and boarding information.
- Health and the pharmacy — A2 vocabulary: Describe symptoms, duration, and treatment at a pharmacy.
- Work and the office — A2 vocabulary: Connect meetings, teams, deadlines, reports, and clients.
- Hobbies and free time — A2 vocabulary: Match activities to grać, uprawiać, or their own verb.
- Feelings and reactions — A2 vocabulary: Describe a feeling, its cause, and changes while keeping gender agreement.
- Household chores — A2 vocabulary: Learn chores as aspect-aware action–object pairs.
- Phones and technology — A2 vocabulary: Handle files, passwords, links, messages, and charging.
- Nature and landscapes — A2 vocabulary: Describe a route through forest, river, mountain, and coast.
- Wstawać: present tense — A2 verb: Use wstaj- forms for a repeated or ongoing getting-up routine.
- Wiedzieć: present tense — A2 verb: State known facts and distinguish wiedzieć from znać.
- Musieć: present tense — A2 verb: Express necessity with musz-/musi- and a following infinitive.
- Wychodzić: present tense — A2 verb: Describe habitual leaving or going out and contrast one event wyjść.
- Dawać: present tense — A2 verb: Use daj- forms and separate direct object from dative recipient.
- Być: past tense — A2 verb: Match gender and number in był/była/było/byli/były plus personal endings.
- Mieć: past tense — A2 verb: Describe past possession and states with miał- plus gender/person endings.
- Iść: past tense — A2 verb: Use szedł-/szła- stems for one directed past walk.
- Robić: past tense — A2 verb: Use robił- forms for ongoing or repeated past work.
- Mówić: past tense — A2 verb: Describe past speech with gendered mówił- forms.
- The dative case — A2 grammar: Mark recipients and complements after verbs such as dawać, pomagać, and podobać się.
- The locative case — A2 grammar: Use locative only after a preposition to talk about place and topic.
- Directed and habitual motion verbs — A2 grammar: Contrast iść/chodzić and jechać/jeździć by direction, repetition, and transport.
- Verb aspect — A2 grammar: Choose imperfective for process/habit and perfective for one bounded result or sequence.
- Past-tense gender and personal endings — A2 grammar: Build Polish past forms from an l-participle plus gender/category and person.
- Future: imperfective and perfective — A2 grammar: Use będę + infinitive/past-form for imperfective future and present-form perfective for bounded future.
- Personal pronoun cases — A2 grammar: Use short and stressed forms according to case, emphasis, and preposition.
- Comparatives and superlatives — A2 grammar: Form adjective/adverb comparisons and choose niż or od + genitive.
- Environment and climate — B1 vocabulary: Discuss environmental causes, consequences, and responses with precise terms.
- News and media literacy — B1 vocabulary: Verify source, date, evidence, and the line between report and opinion.
- Education and skills — B1 vocabulary: Describe courses, assessment, qualifications, and work experience.
- Housing and renting — B1 vocabulary: Discuss rent, contract, charges, defects, and handover.
- Relationships and support — B1 vocabulary: Name trust, support, disagreement, compromise, and reconciliation.
- Public services and paperwork — B1 vocabulary: Follow an application through form, evidence, appointment, deadline, and decision.
- Być: conditional — B1 verb: Use byłbym/byłabym forms for unreal states and tactful suggestions.
- Mieć: conditional — B1 verb: Use miałbym/miałabym for hypothetical possession and polite wishes.
- Móc: conditional — B1 verb: Make requests and possibilities tactful with mógłby-/mogłaby-.
- Zrobić: perfective future — B1 verb: Use present-looking zrobi- forms for one future completed task.
- Przeczytać: perfective future — B1 verb: Present reading a text through to completion.
- Napisać: perfective future — B1 verb: Use napiszę/napiszesz for producing a complete written result.
- Powiedzieć: perfective future — B1 verb: Use powiem/powiesz to present one complete message.
- Aspect in past narration — B1 grammar: Use imperfective for background/process and perfective for completed events that advance the story.
- Prefixed motion verbs — B1 grammar: Add direction and boundary through przy-, wy-, wej-, prze-, do-, and od-.
- Genitive beyond negation — B1 grammar: Use genitive for possession, quantity, absence, origin, and many prepositions.
- Instrumental beyond professions — B1 grammar: Express means, company, route, and selected prepositional relationships.
- Numerals and agreement — B1 grammar: Handle 2–4, 5+, masculine-personal forms, and verb agreement after quantified subjects.
- Relative clauses with który — B1 grammar: Make który agree in gender/number with its antecedent and choose case from its role inside the relative clause.
- Żeby clauses — B1 grammar: Express purpose, desire, request, or intended outcome with żeby and conditional-style endings when needed.
- Trzeba, można, wolno, warto — B1 grammar: State necessity, possibility, permission, and value without naming a subject.
- Short pronouns and się — B1 grammar: Place short unstressed pronouns early but not normally at the very beginning; keep się near its verb.
- Passive with być/zostać — B1 grammar: Use być for state/neutral passive and zostać for a completed change or event.
- Debate and evidence — B2 vocabulary: State a position, qualify it, answer objections, and expose assumptions.
- Business and economic change — B2 vocabulary: Distinguish revenue, profit, costs, investment, hiring, and competition.
- Zostać: perfective future — B2 verb: Express becoming, remaining, or a completed passive auxiliary with zostan-.
- Powinien: obligation adjective-modal — B2 verb: Express should with gendered powinien/powinna/powinno and plural powinni/powinny.
- Być in past counterfactuals — B2 verb: Combine conditional auxiliary forms with a past participle to express an unreal past state/result.
- Participles and verbal adjectives — B2 grammar: Use passive -ny/-ty and active -ący forms with full adjective agreement.
- Adverbial participles — B2 grammar: Use -ąc for simultaneous actions and -wszy/-łszy for an earlier completed action with the same subject.
- Reported speech — B2 grammar: Adjust pronouns and perspective while using że, czy, żeby, or infinitive structures for statements, questions, and commands.
- Complex conditional periods — B2 grammar: Contrast real jeśli, unreal gdyby, and counterfactual past through mood, aspect, and context.
- Nominal style and verbal rewrites — B2 grammar: Recognize action nouns and recover hidden actors and events.
- Concession and opposition — B2 grammar: Acknowledge a fact while showing it does not block a contrasting result.
- Impersonal past forms in -no/-to — B2 grammar: Report completed actions without naming an actor using invariant -no/-to forms.