Polish · 5 phrases

Endearments & Brush-offs

Poles are lavish in affection — kochanie, misiu, a whole zoo of diminutives — and admirably blunt in rejection: spadaj, odwal się, and up the ladder from there. Both registers are sincere, both are load-bearing, and the distance between them is shorter than you'd think. Here's how to be sweet, and how to be final.