Questions & Answers about Cóż, to zależy.
Why is "Well" translated as cóż here instead of dobrze?
In English, "well" has two meanings. When it means "in a good way" (like "I speak Polish well"), you use dobrze. But when you use "well" as a filler word at the beginning of a sentence to pause or express hesitation, you use cóż.
Where does the word cóż come from and how else is it used?
It is actually a combination of the word co (what) and the emphasizing ending -ż. Besides being a filler word, it is often used as a sigh of resignation to mean "oh well" or "what can you do?"
If I wanted to say "it depends ON the weather," how would I add that to zależy?
To say "depends on," you must use the preposition od followed by the Genitive case. For example, "It depends on the weather" is To zależy od pogody.
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