Wynajem i rachunki
Renting in Poland, in the words the contract will actually use.
czynsz
noun · masculine
- EN
- rent; service charge
- RU
- квартплата, аренда
Czynsz płatny do dziesiątego każdego miesiąca.
Rent payable by the tenth of each month.
Careful: in a block it often means the charge to the building's cooperative, separate from what you pay the landlord. Contracts distinguish czynsz najmu from czynsz administracyjny.
kaucja
noun · feminine
- EN
- deposit
- RU
- залог, депозит
Kaucja to równowartość jednego czynszu.
The deposit is one month's rent.
Also bail, in the legal sense. Zwrot kaucji — getting it back — is the phrase to have ready at the end of a tenancy.
licznik
noun · masculine
- EN
- meter (electricity, water)
- RU
- счётчик
Trzeba spisać stan licznika.
We need to take a meter reading.
From liczyć, to count. Spisać stan licznika is the fixed phrase for taking a reading, and it happens at every handover.
wspólnota
noun · feminine
- EN
- the residents' association
- RU
- товарищество собственников
Wspólnota podniosła opłaty.
The residents' association has raised the charges.
The body that runs a block of flats and sets the service charge. Spółdzielnia is the older cooperative form of the same idea.
umowa najmu
noun · feminine + phrase
- EN
- tenancy agreement
- RU
- договор аренды
Podpisaliśmy umowę najmu na rok.
We signed a one-year tenancy.
Najem is renting from the tenant's side; wynajem is letting from the landlord's. The contract uses both and they are not interchangeable.
wypowiedzenie
noun · neuter
- EN
- notice (to quit or to terminate)
- RU
- уведомление о расторжении
Okres wypowiedzenia wynosi miesiąc.
The notice period is one month.
From wypowiedzieć, to say out. The same noun ends a tenancy and a job, and okres wypowiedzenia is the notice period in both.
opłaty
noun · plural
- EN
- charges, bills
- RU
- платежи, коммунальные
Czynsz plus opłaty to dwa i pół tysiąca.
Rent plus bills comes to two and a half thousand.
The catch-all in every listing. Plus opłaty is the phrase that decides whether an advertised price is real.
umeblowane
adjective · neuter
- EN
- furnished
- RU
- меблированная
Mieszkanie w pełni umeblowane.
Fully furnished flat.
From mebel, a piece of furniture. Do zamieszkania od zaraz — ready to move into now — is the other phrase every listing uses.
zaliczka
noun · feminine
- EN
- advance payment, prepayment
- RU
- аванс, предоплата
Zaliczka na ogrzewanie rozliczana raz w roku.
The heating prepayment is reconciled once a year.
Distinct from kaucja: a zaliczka is paid towards a cost and later settled up; a kaucja is held and returned. Bills for heating usually work this way.
najemca
noun · masculine
- EN
- tenant
- RU
- наниматель, арендатор
Najemca odpowiada za drobne naprawy.
The tenant is responsible for minor repairs.
The tenant. The landlord is the wynajmujący — which looks like it ought to mean the renter and does not: the -ący ending belongs to the one doing the letting.
Drill these ten · earlier morning · later morning
Drill these ten