Polish household vocabulary: 299 words
Rooms, furniture and the objects around you at home (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). This page lists 40 of them with their Polish translations, then lets you practise the full set in either direction with spaced repetition.
English to Polish: the first 40 words
| English | Polish | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| home | dom | The feeling of belonging and comfort, not the building itself. |
| house | dom | |
| room | pokój | |
| bedroom | sypialnia | |
| kitchen | kuchnia | |
| bathroom | łazienka | |
| hallway | korytarz | |
| stairs | schody | |
| door | drzwi | |
| window | okno | |
| wall | ściana | |
| ceiling | sufit | |
| floor | podłoga | |
| roof | dach | |
| basement | piwnica | |
| attic | strych | |
| closet | szafa | A storage room or cabinet for clothes, not a private space. |
| furniture | meble | |
| table | stół | |
| chair | krzesło | |
| bed | łóżko | |
| sofa | sofa | |
| couch | kanapa | Informal word for sofa; the words are interchangeable. |
| desk | biurko | |
| shelf | półka | |
| cabinet | szafka | Furniture for storage, not a government body. |
| drawer | szuflada | |
| cupboard | kredens | |
| counter | blat | |
| sink | zlew | A basin for washing, not something that goes down in water. |
| oven | piekarnik | |
| refrigerator | lodówka | |
| freezer | zamrażarka | |
| microwave | mikrofalówka | |
| dishwasher | zmywarka | |
| faucet | kran | |
| bathtub | wanna | |
| shower | prysznic | |
| mirror | lustro | |
| lamp | lampa |
259 more words in the full “Home & Everyday Objects” library, each aligned across seven languages and scheduled for you by spaced repetition. Add it to your account and start drilling English to Polish in one click.
What to watch out for in Polish
- Accents count. Answers are graded accent-sensitively, so you need
ąćęłńóśźż— LinguaSwap shows a one-tap keypad for them while you type. - 136 words carry a usage note in the full library, for the cases where a direct translation would mislead you.
Practise Polish household vocabulary
Words come back just before you would forget them, and every language direction is tracked separately.