trzymaj się
“trzymaj się” — hang in there, take care in Polish. Phrase, level B1. Literally "hold yourself", from the holding verb. One says goodbye with it to someone going through a hard time, and signs letters with it: take care. In a live sentence: “Trzymaj się, jutro będzie lepiej” — Hang in there, tomorrow will be better. A word from the everyday Polish course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Polish | trzymaj się |
| Translation | hang in there, take care |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "hold yourself", from the holding verb. One says goodbye with it to someone going through a hard time, and signs letters with it: take care.
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.
- Trzymaj się, jutro będzie lepiejHang in there, tomorrow will be better
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 “hang in there, take care” in Polish?
«trzymaj się». In a live sentence: “Trzymaj się, jutro będzie lepiej” — Hang in there, tomorrow will be better. Phrase, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "hold yourself", from the holding verb. One says goodbye with it to someone going through a hard time, and signs letters with it: take care. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.