Word
Nieźle mówisz po polsku!
Meaning
You speak Polish pretty well!
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Nieźle mówisz po polsku!
mówić
to speak
po polsku
in Polish (of speaking, reading, understanding)
nieźle
pretty well, not bad (informal)
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Questions & Answers about Nieźle mówisz po polsku!
At B2, I know dobrze means well, so why use nieźle here? Does it mean their Polish is just okay?
In Polish, nieźle (literally not badly) is often used as a very genuine, warm compliment rather than a reluctant okay. Native speakers frequently prefer it over bardzo dobrze to sound natural and casually impressed. It carries the meaning of pretty well or quite impressively.
I have used the po polsku phrase since day one, but grammatically speaking, what case is polsku in?
It is actually a remnant of an old, archaic case ending! In modern Polish, the preposition po usually takes the locative case (which would make the adjective polskim). However, for languages and a few other fixed phrases, Polish kept the ancient dative/locative ending -ku. So po polsku functions as a fixed adverbial phrase today.
Could I change the word order to Mówisz po polsku nieźle!?