{"id":468,"date":"2009-01-20T01:11:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T05:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=468"},"modified":"2009-01-20T01:11:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T05:11:42","slug":"even-more-perfective-and-imperfective-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/even-more-perfective-and-imperfective-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Perfective and Imperfective Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I am still enjoying myself in Antigua and Barbuda. But I couldn\u2019t just go away and leave you without a new post.<br \/>\nSo, I thought we might as well continue with the perfective and imperfective stuff. It&#8217;s always a pain to learn, and I&#8217;m pretty sure we could keep talking about for the next 10 weeks and not get bored.<\/p>\n<p>Remember how I mentioned once before that some Polish verbs turn from imperfective into perfective through the use of prefixes? I read somewhere that there are about 18 of those prefixes, but fortunately for us, these eight are the most common:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>na-<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>z-<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>za-<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>po-<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>u-<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>o-<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>prze-<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>wy-<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I know you\u2019re just itching to see them in action. So, here they come, just a few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>czyta\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>przeczyta\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to read<\/li>\n<li><strong>goli\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>ogoli\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to shave<\/li>\n<li><strong>s\u0142ysze\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>us\u0142ysze\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to hear<\/li>\n<li><strong>pisa\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>napisa\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to write<\/li>\n<li><strong>rozumie\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>zrozumie\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to understand<\/li>\n<li><strong>robi\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>zrobi\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to do<\/li>\n<li><strong>p\u0142aci\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>zap\u0142aci\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to pay<\/li>\n<li><strong>pi\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>wypi\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to drink<\/li>\n<li><strong>jecha\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>pojecha\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to ride, to go (not no foot),<\/li>\n<li><strong>dzi\u0119kowa\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>podzi\u0119kowa\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to thank<\/li>\n<li><strong>gotowa\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>ugotowa\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to cook<\/li>\n<li><strong>prosi\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>poprosi\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to ask<\/li>\n<li><strong>my\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>umy\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to wash<\/li>\n<li><strong>dzwoni\u0107<\/strong> (imperfective) \u2013 <strong>zadzwoni\u0107<\/strong> (perfective) \u2013 to ring, to call on the phone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, it\u2019s impossible to predict which prefix goes with which verb. Sometimes a prefix that makes one verb perfective can completely change the meaning of another verb. So, sadly, the only way to figure it out is to memorize the verbs and the prefixes as you go along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I am still enjoying myself in Antigua and Barbuda. But I couldn\u2019t just go away and leave you without a new post. So, I thought we might as well continue with the perfective and imperfective stuff. 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