🇷🇺 → 🇵🇱
How easy is Polish for Russian speakers?
Going from Russian to Polish (Polski) has a composite linguistic distance of 48% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
48% distance
FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
38%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
87%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
33%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
0%
Cyrillic → Latin
Genealogical kinship
70%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇷🇺 Russian
Зима холодная и длинная, но весна приносит тепло и свет.
🇵🇱 Polish
Zima jest zimna i długa, ale wiosna przynosi ciepło i światło.
🇷🇺 Russian
Студент читает книги в библиотеке каждый день.
🇵🇱 Polish
Student czyta książki w bibliotece każdego dnia.
Curated cognates between Russian and Polish
Word pairs that share a common etymological root — instantly recognisable across both languages:
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water
woda ↔ вода (voda)
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house
dom ↔ дом (dom)
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milk
mleko ↔ молоко (moloko)
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brother
brat ↔ брат (brat)
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