My question is how should i approach this. I know all the stuff below however, struggling understand how it works for the other part. I know moj/moja twoj/twoja. The "pan" part makes me confused. Since pan/pani means mr/mrs should it mean his and hers? For example Czy ma pan żonę? Should be answered as On ma żone right? Somehow it says it should be answered as "I have a wife"
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Its easy, and probably one of easiest thing in polish 😉 for Polish people ^^
What its so confiusing for yoy in this?
Are you asking czy ma Pan żonę? this is a polite question for someone you are not with. Would you ask someone you know for a while masz żonę?
and when answering, the person uses the appropriate form, if the question concerns him, he uses the form for ja, in this case, “(ja) mam żonę” If the question was about someone else: czy ten Pan ma żonę?or ” czy ma on żonę?” he would answer as you wrote, “tak, ma żonę.” “or “on ma żonę”.
“Personal Pronouns
Personal pronouns in Polish distinguish between the first, second, and third person in both singular and plural forms. They are inflected for case, reflecting their role in the sentence. Understanding personal pronouns is crucial for basic communication, indicating who is speaking, who is being spoken to, and who or what is being spoken about.
Subject Pronouns: Used for the subject of the sentence (e.g., “ja” for “I”, “ty” for “you”).
Object Pronouns: Serve as objects in sentences and change form depending on the case (e.g., “mnie” for “me”, “cię” for “you”).
Possessive Pronouns
Possessive pronouns indicate ownership or possession and agree with the noun being possessed in gender, number, and case. They are an integral part of expressing possession in Polish.
Examples include “mój” (my), “twój” (your), and “jego” (his). The form of these pronouns will change to match the noun they are associated with, making agreement a key consideration.
Demonstrative Pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns point to specific nouns and are used to distinguish particular objects or people from others. Like other pronouns, they agree in gender, number, and case with the nouns they refer to.
Common demonstrative pronouns include “ten” (this) and “tamten” (that). Their forms vary significantly across cases, requiring learners to familiarize themselves with these variations.
Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions about people or things and include words for “who,” “what,” “which,” and “whose.” They are pivotal in forming questions and are inflected for case to align with the grammatical structure of the question being asked.
Examples are “kto” (who) for people and “co” (what) for things. These pronouns change form to indicate questions about subjects, objects, and possessive relationships.”
https://www.verbalplanet.com/learn-polish/blog/basics-of-polish-grammar.asp
As for native this is something extremly easy and basic.
r/learnpolish is good, good luck in your learning.
Imagine Pan/Pani as if you’re talking about someone in the third person singular.
Pan is formal “on” and pani is formal “ona”. What you wrote is correct – Czy Pan ma żonę? On ma żonę/ Ten Pan ma żonę.
I see that you speak German; overall those rules are quite similar to Dativ/Akkusativ
> Since pan/pani means mr/mrs should it mean his and hers?
Not quite. It’s more equivalent to sir/madam, and as such is sometimes used to formally address the other side of the conversation.
Czy ma pan żonę = Does sir have a wife? = Do <you>, sir, have a wife?
*You are asking him if he has a wife.* As such, he will respond about himself: “<Ja> mam żonę” = “<I> have a wife”
Czy ten pan ma żonę = Does that sir have a wife?
*You are asking him if another man has a wife.* As such, he will respond about the other man: <On> ma żonę” = “<He> has a wife”