Polish-Georgian translation is the most requested Slavic pair in Georgia after Russian, and it is exactly this demand that creates the problem of quality: there are many "translators" on the market who read Polish via Russian, with the experience of several years of work in Poland but without philological training, and their translation is often returned by a Polish urząd for exactly the reason that it is "understandable, but not in Polish". On this page we describe how we work from Georgian into Polish and from Polish into Georgian, who the final reader of each direction is and which traps mark each route, from the seven cases to the false friends.
From Georgian into Polish: who reads and what they expect
A Polish addressee, an inspector at the voivodeship office, an employee of the USC, a university admissions committee, an employer, a ZUS officer or a business partner, expects an official text in a specific form: the address "Szanowny Panie / Szanowna Pani" with the position or title, the polite third person ("Czy Pan/Pani mógłby/mogłaby..."), the date with the place stated and the month in the genitive ("Warszawa, 15 marca 2026 r."), laconic paragraphs, Polish administrative terminology aligned with the EU system. The Georgian official style, with long subordinate sentences and bureaucratic phraseology, comes out heavy and foreign when carried directly into Polish, though Polish bureaucratic language is fairly formal too. So the final editor of a Georgian-Polish translation with us is a native speaker of Polish, who fits the text to the Polish official norm.
The CV, the list motywacyjny and the Polish labour market in the new regime
In Poland a resume is called a "CV" or "życiorys", and the Europass format is widespread, though by Polish convention a clause of consent to the processing of personal data (klauzula RODO) is mandatory at the end of a CV, without which an employer has no right to consider the document; this detail is often unknown to Georgian candidates. The motivation letter (list motywacyjny) is short and tailored to the specific vacancy. Since December 2025, when Georgian workers need a full work permit, the exactness of the names of qualifications has become decisive for the voivodeship office: a Georgian profession must be linked to the Polish classification of professions, while degrees must pass with the Polish titles licencjat, inżynier, magister, keeping the original. Along with the translation we advise the client which element to move or add, so that the document is perceived naturally by a Polish employer and at the voivodeship office.
Tourism and wine: localisation for Polish travellers
Poles are among Georgia's most loyal guests, and Polish versions of tourism websites, hotels, wineries and mountain tours are already a competitive standard. Polish localisation includes several particularities: a Polish reader expects a warm, direct but polite text in the "Państwo" form, detailed practical information, prices in zloty or euros, a description of the difficulty and safety of mountain routes, because mountain tourism is Georgia's main attraction for Poles. Georgian culinary and wine terms are already partly established in Polish (chaczapuri, chinkali, kwewri), because Georgian cuisine is one of the most popular in Poland, and the transcription must be in Polish orthography, not English. In wine marketing the Polish wine vocabulary (wytrawne, półwytrawne, półsłodkie, taniny, kwasowość, pełne) and the Georgian wine brands already known in Poland are the points of reference.
From Polish into Georgian: translating the system
A Polish official document is understandable to a Georgian reader when the translation also "translates" the Polish institutions. The urząd wojewódzki is the voivodeship office, a regional state administration that handles the affairs of foreigners; ZUS is the Social Insurance Institution, the NFZ the National Health Fund, the urząd skarbowy the tax office, the powiatowy urząd pracy the district labour office, the urząd gminy the municipal office, the KRS the National Court Register, the sąd rejonowy the district court. The names of these authorities pass by functional translation and, where needed, with the original stated in brackets, and in a notarised translation too they are explained in the form of a "translator's note". The hierarchy of Polish administrative acts, decyzja (decision), postanowienie (ruling), zaświadczenie (certificate), odpis (extract), wezwanie (summons), must be linked exactly to the Georgian equivalents.
Russian false friends: the most dangerous trap
Polish is close enough to Russian that a Georgian translator who commands Russian "understands" a Polish text in a way that goes wrong precisely in that understanding. "Zapomnieć" means to forget, not to remember; "sklep" is a shop, not a crypt; "uroda" is beauty; "dywan" is a carpet; "czas" is time; "owoce" are fruit; "krawat" is a tie; "zakaz" is a ban; "pensja" is a salary; "dworzec" is a station; "puszka" is a tin; "rano" is morning, not early; "jutro" is tomorrow, not morning; "stół" is a table, "krzesło" a chair; "ubrać" is to dress, not to remove; "grzeczny" is polite, not sinful; "prosto" means straight ahead; "list" is a letter, not a leaf; "portfel" is a wallet. In a legal text these traps change the content of the document: "zakaz zbliżania się" is a restraining order, "pensja brutto" is the salary before tax, "termin" is a deadline and not a term. Our Polish translators command Polish directly, and the editor checks the list of false friends separately.
Grammatical traps from Polish into Georgian
- Verbal aspect: "złożyć" (to submit, once) and "składać" (to submit, repeatedly) change the understanding of the deadline and the procedure in an authority's instruction.
- The inflection of numerals: "dwóch pracowników", "pięciu pracowników", "dwa lata", "pięć lat" are different forms, and an amount written out in words in a contract ("trzy tysiące pięćset złotych") must be "unfolded" exactly.
- The vocative: "Panie Kowalski", "Pani Anno" is the case of address and changes the form of the name; in an identification field the name must be returned to the nominative.
- "Umowa o pracę", "umowa zlecenia", "umowa o dzieło": employment, mandate and specific-work contracts give different rights, and a mistake in one word changes a Georgian worker's status.
- Numbers and currency: the Polish 1 250,50 zł (with a space for thousands and a comma for decimals) passes to the Georgian convention, the zloty stays unchanged and is not converted into lari.
Grammatical traps from Georgian into Polish
- The inflection of Georgian names: "Giorgi Maisuradze" becomes "Giorgiego Maisuradze" in the Polish genitive, the given name inflects while the foreign surname often stays unchanged, and the translator must know this distribution exactly.
- Gender neutrality: the Georgian "applicant" becomes wnioskodawca or wnioskodawczyni in Polish, and in an official document the gender form is specified from the context, while the past tense form of the verb also changes by gender (złożył/złożyła).
- Georgian administrative acts: "order", "instruction", "resolution" pass in Polish as zarządzenie, decyzja, uchwała, rozporządzenie, according to their legal force.
- Pan/Pani and the capital letter: in an official letter "Pan", "Pani", "Państwo" with a capital letter is a mark of politeness, and omitting it is perceived as disrespect.
- Dates and addresses: the Polish "15 marca 2026 r." with the month in the genitive and the abbreviation "r.", the postal code before the city ("00-001 Warszawa"), the type of street (ul., al., pl.) before the name.
"Polska pomoc", the Solidarity Fund and project documentation
Poland is one of Georgia's most active bilateral donors, with the programmes of "Polska pomoc", the Solidarity Fund and Polish non-governmental organisations, which finance regional development, local self-government, education and civil society, while in EU programmes Polish partners are often in the lead role with Georgian organisations. Project documentation, grant agreements, narrative and financial reports, audit conclusions, teaching materials, is translated in both directions, often in parallel with English. Project terminology, indicators, budget lines, the names of activities, must be translated identically from year to year, and for each project we keep a separate terminology base and keep the same translator throughout the project's cycle.
Technical and product documentation in both directions
Polish food, cosmetics, construction materials, furniture, pharmaceutical preparations and agricultural machinery come to Georgia with instructions, labels and certificates that follow the Polish version of EU standards and must correspond to the requirements of Georgian registration; Georgian wine, hazelnuts, mineral water and tea in Poland, conversely, need the Polish wording of EU rules. Technical Polish is marked by its own terminological tradition, where the terms of Polish norms (PN) and European standards are used in parallel, and a terminology base ensures uniformity. We work with translation memory, which keeps serial documents uniform; in safety data sheets (karta charakterystyki) the standard H- and P-phrases pass in the Georgian official version.
The medical direction both ways
A Polish hospital discharge (karta informacyjna leczenia szpitalnego), a specialist's opinion and an electronic prescription are translated into Georgian for continuing treatment in Georgia, while a Georgian epicrisis and test reports are translated into Polish for a Polish doctor, for treatment in Poland, an NFZ procedure or a health certificate for a work permit. A Polish medical record uses Latin terminology as Georgian does, and diagnoses are often written in Latin and Polish in parallel, which makes the translation easier, but the Polish abbreviations (OB, CRP, RTG, USG, EKG, TK, RM) and the system of incapacity for work (e-ZLA, the so-called L4) require a specialist; to the trade names of medicines, often of Polish manufacturers, we add the international non-proprietary names, and we carry diagnoses over with ICD-10 codes. The details of this direction are described on a separate page.
Official correspondence and deadlines
Georgians living in Poland receive letters from the voivodeship office, ZUS, the tax office, the labour office and municipalities, which often contain deadlines, requested documents and fines, and Polish administrative language, "wezwanie do uzupełnienia braków" (a summons to make good defects), "decyzja odmowna" (a refusal decision), "odwołanie" (an appeal), "termin" (a deadline), "pouczenie" (an explanation of rights), requires an exact and fast translation, because the deadline for a reply is often 7-14 days. In the opposite direction a Georgian applicant's application (wniosek), explanation (oświadczenie) or appeal (odwołanie) is prepared for a Polish authority in Polish, in the right format and the Pan/Pani register, because an authority returns a wrongly formatted application before considering its content. We carry out orders of this type in express mode.
School and academic documents in both directions
Families moving between Poland and Georgia need the translation of a child's school documents: the Polish świadectwo szkolne (report card) and zaświadczenie o uczęszczaniu for a Georgian school, a Georgian report card and certificate for a Polish school. The Polish school marking system (6 celujący, 5 bardzo dobry, 1 niedostateczny) repeats the logic of the Georgian one, but the length of the scale differs, the school stages (szkoła podstawowa of eight years, liceum, technikum) differ from the Georgian structure, and in the translation these systemic differences are reflected in explanatory notes. At university level Georgian researchers' articles and abstracts are translated for Polish journals, while Polish scholarly texts, in Caucasus studies, history and European studies, are translated for Georgian universities, by translators who know the field.
Two-way projects: contracts in two languages
A Georgian-Polish contract is often concluded in two languages, and both versions must be legally of equal force. One team works on such a project in both directions, with a common terminology base, and compares the two versions clause by clause. Polish contractual language follows the terminology of the 1964 Civil Code (Kodeks cywilny), which is structurally close to the Georgian Civil Code because both come from the continental tradition, but terminological accuracy still requires a specialist: kara umowna (contractual penalty), odszkodowanie (compensation for damage), odstąpienie od umowy (withdrawal from the contract), wypowiedzenie (termination with notice), siła wyższa (force majeure), poręczenie (suretyship). We advise stating in the contract which version prevails in the event of a dispute, and translating this clause identically in both languages.
Georgian restaurants and business in Poland: localisation in the opposite direction
The scale of the Georgian diaspora in Poland has created a separate segment of Georgian business: restaurants, wine shops, travel agencies, construction and transport companies in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Gdansk, which speak to the Polish consumer in Polish. The Polish versions of menus, websites, social media, advertising materials and commercial offers, as well as CEIDG and KRS registration documents, sanitary inspection (Sanepid) and alcohol licence applications, are a constant need of these businesses. The translation of a menu is a genre of its own: the established Polish transcription of Georgian dishes, the mandatory statement of ingredients and allergens by EU rules, and a tone that "invites" a Polish guest to the Georgian table. For this segment we keep a terminology base, which prepares the materials of seasonal menus and new branches quickly and uniformly.
Quality control and back-translation
In both directions the translation goes through two stages: the translator and an independent editor. When translating from Georgian into Polish the editor is a native speaker of Polish and checks the text for register, case forms, the inflection of numerals and naturalness; when translating from Polish into Georgian the editor is a Georgian language specialist who confirms the content's correspondence with the original, with separate control of false friends, aspect and types of contract. In texts of high responsibility, a contract, a work permit package, a pharmaceutical leaflet, at the client's request we do a back-translation: the finished Polish text is returned into Georgian by a third translator and the two versions are compared.
Deadlines by direction
A standard document is ready in one working day, in express mode in 1-2 hours. Every order is accepted online, files are processed in a secure system, and the finished translation is delivered to you electronically or, in the case of a certified version, by courier. For confidential information we conclude a separate agreement at the client's request, in Polish or Georgian.
Which page you need next
The certification of documents to be presented to an authority is described on the notarised translation page; the specifics of contracts, court and medical texts on the legal and medical translation page; oral interpreting at a meeting with a Polish partner on the simultaneous and oral interpreting page, and the general overview on the main Polish language page.
Frequently asked questions
How does translating from Georgian into Polish differ from translating from Polish into Georgian?
When translating into Polish the text is built in the Pan/Pani register, with the right cases and by the rules of the Polish genre, and the final editor is a native speaker of Polish. When translating into Georgian the Polish authorities and procedures must be explained for a Georgian reader, with separate control of false friends, aspect and types of contract.
Why is knowledge of Russian dangerous for Polish translation?
Many words in Polish resemble Russian and mean the opposite: "zapomnieć" is to forget, "sklep" a shop, "zakaz" a ban, "pensja" a salary, "owoce" fruit. Our translators command Polish directly and the editor checks the list of false friends separately.
What should we consider when translating a Georgian CV into Polish?
A clause of consent to the processing of personal data (klauzula RODO) is mandatory at the end of a Polish CV, the names of qualifications must be linked to the Polish classification, and since December 2025 the voivodeship office checks the correspondence of the qualification with the vacancy particularly closely.
Won't machine translation do for the Polish version of a tourism website?
Machine translation handles Polish cases, the Państwo register and the Polish transcription of Georgian terms badly, and a Polish user notices this at once. We write the text to the expectations of a Polish reader, with the vocabulary of mountain tourism and wine.
Does one team translate a bilingual Georgian-Polish contract?
Yes, one team works in both directions with a common terminology base, with the correspondence of the concepts of the Kodeks cywilny and the Georgian Civil Code, and compares the two versions clause by clause. We advise stating in the contract which version prevails in the event of a dispute.