Questions & Answers about Lubię suszone owoce.
How do you pronounce Lubię suszone owoce?
A careful approximation is:
LOO-byeh soo-SHO-neh oh-VO-tseh
A few useful details:
- Lubię: the lu- sounds like loo, and bię is roughly byeh with a nasalized vowel at the end.
- sz in suszone sounds like English sh.
- c in owoce sounds like ts.
Polish stress is usually on the second-to-last syllable:
- LU-bię
- su-SZO-ne
- o-WO-ce
What does lubię mean grammatically?
Lubię is the 1st person singular present tense form of lubić, which means to like.
So:
- lubić = to like
- lubię = I like
The -ę ending tells you it means I.
Why is there no word for I in the sentence?
In Polish, the subject pronoun is often omitted because the verb ending already tells you who the subject is.
So:
- Lubię already means I like
- Ja lubię is also possible, but ja is usually added only for emphasis or contrast
For example:
- Lubię suszone owoce. = neutral, normal
- Ja lubię suszone owoce. = I like dried fruit