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When planning an event, you want to make sure everyone is invited and everything is ready. Polish uses two universal pronouns to express absolute completeness: **wszystko** (everything) and **wszyscy** (everyone).

### Everything: Wszystko

Use **wszystko** to talk about things or concepts. It takes the exact same form in the Nominative and Accusative cases.

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### Everyone: Wszyscy

When talking about people, you must choose the correct case depending on the word's grammatical role. If "everyone" is the subject doing the action, use the Nominative form **wszyscy**.

Unlike English, which treats "everyone" as a singular word (everyone *is*), Polish treats **wszyscy** as a plural group (everyone *are*). Notice how the verbs that follow must match this plural form.

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### Direct Objects: Wszystkich

If "everyone" is the direct object receiving the action—such as when you need to inform, see, or invite everyone—the word changes to its Accusative form: **wszystkich**.

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### Neither... Nor...

If your event planning hits a snag, you might need to say that "neither" one thing "nor" another is working out. Polish uses the pair **ani..., ani...** to express this.

Because Polish requires double negation, you must always add **nie** to the main verb of the sentence.

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Everyone and everything (wszyscy, wszystko)

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

particle

predicative

preposition

pronoun

proper noun

sentence

verb

This is (to jest)

The verb to be, singular (być)

Formal address (Pan, Pani)

Demonstrative pronouns (ten, ta, to)

Adjective agreement

Negation (nie)

Basic questions (czy, kto, co, gdzie, jak)

The verb to be, plural (być)

Present tense -m/-sz verbs

Reflexive verbs (się)

Coordinating conjunctions (i, a, ale)

Feminine direct objects (Accusative)

Inanimate direct objects (Accusative)

Animate masculine direct objects (Accusative)

Present tense verbs 2 (-ę, -isz / -ysz)

Expressing location (w, na)

Locative adjective agreement

Professions and nationalities (Instrumental)

Accompaniment (z + Instrumental)

Present tense verbs 3 (-ę, -esz)

Plural possessives (nasz, wasz)

Numbers 1 to 10

Genitive of possession

Genitive of negation

Lack or absence (nie ma)

Basic quantifiers (dużo, mało, trochę)

Liking things (podoba mi się)

Modal verbs (móc, musieć)

Subordinating conjunctions (bo, że)

Unidirectional motion verbs (iść, jechać)

Expressing age (mieć... lat)

Habitual motion (chodzić, jeździć)

Expressing destination (do)

Days of the week (poniedziałek, wtorek...)

Plural nouns for objects and animals

Plural nouns for people

Plural adjective agreement

Accusative object pronouns (go, ją, je...)

The past tense of to be (był)

Singular past tense (-łem, -łam...)

Expressing age (mieć + lata / lat)

Plural past tense (-li / -ły)

Perfective past tense

Future tense (będę + infinitive)

Age: one year (mieć rok)

Prices and currency (złoty, grosz)

Destination (na + accusative)

Non-masculine plurals (-e, -y, -i)

Instrumental pronouns (ze mną, z tobą)

To know (znać vs wiedzieć)

The future perfective tense

The imperative mood

Months of the year (styczeń, luty)

Greetings and farewells (dzień dobry, cześć)

Introducing yourself (mam na imię)

Thank you and sorry (dziękuję, przepraszam)

Left, right, up and down (po lewej stronie)

Parts of the body (ręka, noga)

Parts of the day (dzień, noc, południe)

What is it like? (jaki, jaka, jakie)

Speaking Polish (mówić po polsku)

Instrumental for adjectives (dobrym, dobrą)

Please do... (proszę + infinitive)

Interests (interesować się + Instrumental)

Can one? (można, trzeba, nie wolno)

By bus or by train (jechać autobusem)

Where are you from? (jestem z Polski)

Where exactly? (obok, przy, przed, za, pod, nad)

What time is it? (Która godzina?)

Not seeing her (go, jej, ich; niego, niej, nich)

When I have time (kiedy as a conjunction)

Irregular past stems (miał, mieli)

The verb 'iść' in the past (szedł, szli)

Imperfective future (będę odpoczywał)

Past aspect (robił vs zrobił)

Future aspect (będzie malował vs pomaluje)

Perfective motion with po- (pójść, pojechać)

Arrival verbs with przy- (przyjść, przyjechać)

Departure verbs with wy- (wyjść, wyjechać)

The Vocative case (Panie, Mamo)

Plural possessives (moi, moje)

Reflexive possessive pronouns (swój)

Genitive plural of masculine nouns (-ów, -y, -i)

Genitive plural of feminine and neuter nouns

Genitive plural of adjectives (-ych, -ich)

Accusative plural of masculine personal nouns

Question	Answer
perfectly	doskonale
to organize (perfective)	zorganizować
She organized everything perfectly for today.	Ona wszystko doskonale zorganizowała na dzisiaj.
catering	katering
to take care of	zadbać o
Everyone knows that you must organize the catering and take care of the drinks.	Wszyscy wiedzą, że musisz zorganizować katering i zadbać o napoje.
champagne	szampan
snack	przekąska
When everyone is ready, I am going for champagne and snacks.	Kiedy wszyscy są gotowi, idę po szampana i przekąski.
They took care of everything perfectly, we have excellent catering and snacks.	Oni doskonale zadbali o wszystko, mamy świetny katering i przekąski.
to inform	poinformować
balloon	balon
decoration	dekoracja
You must inform everyone where the balloons and decorations are.	Musisz poinformować wszystkich, gdzie są balony i dekoracje.
satisfied	zadowolony
Everyone was satisfied when they saw these new decorations.	Wszyscy byli zadowoleni, kiedy zobaczyli te nowe dekoracje.
Yesterday we informed everyone that everything is ready.	Wczoraj poinformowaliśmy wszystkich, że wszystko jest gotowe.
present	obecny
Is everyone already present in the hall?	Czy wszyscy są już obecni w sali?
Neither the boss nor the director is present today, so I am not satisfied.	Ani szef, ani dyrektor nie jest dzisiaj obecny, więc nie jestem zadowolony.
Neither this champagne nor these snacks are tasty.	Ani ten szampan, ani te przekąski nie są smaczne.
We organized everything for the birthday, there are balloons and decorations.	Zorganizowaliśmy wszystko na urodziny, są balony i dekoracje.