This is the complete, authoritative McKay's English-Polish/Polish-English dictionary that has become the standard work for students, translators, and other users of Polish and English. Both the Polish and English sections provide an extensive vocabulary, with a range wide enough to fill the needs of the translator and the advanced student as well as the general reader. The Polish section gives especially careful attention to the treatment of verbs, with a helpful and easy-to-use system for showing perfective and imperfective verb forms. The English entries are shown with full pronunciations, using a notation that incorporates standard Polish orthography along with a few essential phonetic symbols for maximum ease of use by the Polish reader.

Polish and English bilingual dictionary with over 31,000 entries for students and travelers.

Contains English to Polish and Polish to English translations of 45,000 words and phrases, and includes a pronunciation guide and other resources.

This book describes the historical development of the Polish and English lingua legis. The intention is to point out the major differences between the legal realities, which significantly affect the process of translation. Secondly, the following characteristic features of lingua legis, concerning the level of words and syntagmas, are touched upon: vocabulary used in lingua legis including technical and semi-technical terms, conservatism of legal texts (Latin and Latinisms; synonymous strings, archaic adverbs etc.), borrowings, terms with non-precise meanings (the problem of indeterminacy), neologisms, euphemisms, vulgarisms, performative verbs, metaphors and religious elements, prepositional phrases, time expressions, compound nouns and the problems connected with nominalization, false cognates which cause major misunderstandings, and finally methods of providing translation equivalents. The problem of ambivalence is analysed as well. The problems connected with the Polish-English and English-Polish translation of the texts belonging to the following legal genres are examined: university diplomas and certificates, statutes, judgments, law reports, powers of attorney, petitions, contracts and deeds, testaments, birth, death and marriage certificates, and popular fiction.

Defines approximately 30,000 words and phrases used in English and Polish.