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

Left and right

Polish says on the left side and on the right side, never a bare left or right:

on the left

po lewej stronie — on the left. on the right
po prawej stronie
— on the right.

Learn them whole. The endings inside them are Locative, which is exactly what the previous lesson introduced.

Up and down

up, upstairs

na górze and down, downstairs
na dole
work the same way. In a building they mean upstairs and downstairs.

phrasemeaning
po lewej stronieon the left
po prawej stronieon the right
na górzeup, upstairs
na doledown, downstairs

The adjective

left (adjective)

lewy is the adjective left, and it agrees like any other: lewy pokój.

Here, again

here

tutaj is a longer, slightly more emphatic tu. Both mean here.

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