Tag Archives: verb aspect
Polish Participles – imiesłowy continued Posted by Anna on Apr 28, 2010
As promised, today we will take a more in-depth look at the mystical imiesłowy. Joy oh joy, I know. To do this we need to pick a nice, easy verb. How about “pisać”? And how about “napisać”? Both mean “to write”, but pisać is imperfective, and napisać is perfective. Ready? Ok, here we go. piszący…
Future Tense of Perfective and Imperfective Verbs Posted by Anna on Aug 14, 2009
One of you (once again, I can always count on you, my fab readers!) wanted to know more about this whole verb aspect issue. More specifically, how to tell whether a verb is perfective or imperfective by looking at its future tense form. And finally, this is one thing that is actually very simple, easy…
Verb Aspect – one more time Posted by Anna on Jul 28, 2009
Agnieszka left a comment asking for help with explaining the difference between pomóc and pomagać (to help), and prosić and poprosić (to ask). And when a reader asks – I dig out my fat Swan’s “Polish Grammar” book and get cranking. We’ve talked about this verb aspect thingie before. Because that’s what it’s called –…