dziękuję za pomoc
“dziękuję za pomoc” — thank you for the help in Polish. Phrase, level A2. Za takes the object form, and for help it looks just like the dictionary form. The reply is "there is nothing for it" — don't mention it. One formula for the doctor, the neighbour and the colleague alike. In a live sentence: “Dziękuję za pomoc z bagażami” — Thank you for the help with the suitcases. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Polish | dziękuję za pomoc |
| Translation | thank you for the help |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Za takes the object form, and for help it looks just like the dictionary form. The reply is "there is nothing for it" — don't mention it. One formula for the doctor, the neighbour and the colleague alike.
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Dziękuję za pomoc z bagażamiThank you for the help with the suitcases
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “thank you for the help” in Polish?
«dziękuję za pomoc». In a live sentence: “Dziękuję za pomoc z bagażami” — Thank you for the help with the suitcases. Phrase, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Za takes the object form, and for help it looks just like the dictionary form. The reply is "there is nothing for it" — don't mention it. One formula for the doctor, the neighbour and the colleague alike. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.