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> The words mom (appearing in your contact list), mom (as in call mom) and mom (as in send money to mom) are different. Each time I tried WP8.1 voice assistan

• smcl 8y ago
  Interesting, Polish and Czech are so alike and so different :D I guess the word Polish "mama" is pretty much the Czech "mamka" which similarly declines to "mamky" in the genitive case, but "do mamky" here is "into mum" which is ... rather odd (I think Czech would use the Dative "mamce" - so “zavolej mamce” or “zavolejte mamce” depending on your relationship with your phone!) I get tripped up when, for example, talking about getting presents from people and never seem to use the correct preposition - "od" or "z". I seem to use the one that would implied "came out of" not "came from"
  • pndy 8y ago
    It's the same West Slavic language group along with Slovak, thus those are similar to the certain degree but sometimes differ way too much like for example, infamous "szukać" (look for, seek; hledat) and "šukat" (to have sexual intercourse, to put it mildly) or "czerstwy" (stale) and "čerstvy" (fresh). I'm partially able to understand my Czech friend when he does speak in his language and same goes for him. As for "mama", there's a quite good explanation why it does looks similar (if not same) in many languages: https://www.mother.ly/parenting/mama-is-most-universal-word https://www.mother.ly/parenting/mama-is-most-universal-word