Attitudes: caring, not caring, fearing (wszystko jedno, nie znosić, obawiać się)

Dislike and being fed up

nie znosić — can't stand — always negative, with the Genitive: nie znoszę hałasu.

mieć dość + Genitive — to be fed up with, to have had enough of: mam dość tej pracy.

I am fed up with this job.
Mam dość tej pracy.

Not caring

wszystko jedno — it's all the same; with a Dative person, wszystko mi jedno (I don't mind). As an answer it stands alone.

Coffee or tea? — It's all the same to me.
Kawa czy herbata? — Wszystko jedno.

nie ma znaczenia — it doesn't matter.

obchodzić — you know it as to celebrate. Its other meaning is to concern, to matter to, used with an Accusative person and usually negated: nie obchodzi mnie to (I don't care about it), co cię to obchodzi?

I don't care what he thinks.
Nie obchodzi mnie, co on myśli.

Worry, regret, disappointment

obawiać się — to fear, to be afraid — the polite, milder relative of bać się: with the Genitive (obawiam się deszczu), with o + Accusative for someone you worry about, or with że.

I am afraid it is going to rain.
Obawiam się, że będzie padać.

żal mi — I feel sorry / I regret: żal mi tego chłopca (I feel sorry for that boy, Genitive), żal mi, że… (I regret that…).

zawiedziony — disappointed, let down — from zawieść (to let down); with the Instrumental of the cause: zawiedziony wynikiem.

pragnienie — desire, and also thirst: mieć pragnienie.

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