🇵🇱 → 🇩🇪
How easy is German for Polish speakers?
Going from Polish to German (Deutsch) has a composite linguistic distance of 64% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
64% distance
FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
15%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
53%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
0%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
100%
Latin → Latin
Genealogical kinship
40%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇵🇱 Polish
Der Student studiert Philosophie und Geschichte an der Universität.
🇩🇪 German
Student studiuje filozofię i historię na uniwersytecie.
🇵🇱 Polish
Das Museum hat eine wichtige Kollektion moderner Kunst und Skulptur.
🇩🇪 German
Muzeum ma ważną kolekcję nowoczesnej sztuki i rzeźby.
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