{"id":596,"date":"2009-08-14T08:45:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-08-14T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:45:19","slug":"future-tense-of-perfective-and-imperfective-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/future-tense-of-perfective-and-imperfective-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Tense of Perfective and Imperfective Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, this is one thing that is actually very simple, easy and straightforward in Polish. Really!<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s use these two verbs that you should already know from the previous post about aspect: <strong>pom\u00f3c<\/strong> and <strong>pomaga\u0107<\/strong> (to help).<\/p>\n<p>Which one of those is perfective? If you know how to create future tense forms of Polish verbs, finding out the aspect is a piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at all the future tense forms of \u201c<strong>pom\u00f3c<\/strong>\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ja<\/strong> (I) &#8211; <strong>pomog\u0119<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ty<\/strong> (you, singular) &#8211; <strong>pomo\u017cesz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>on, ona, ono<\/strong> (he, she, it) &#8211; <strong>pomo\u017ce<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>my<\/strong> (we) &#8211; <strong>pomo\u017cemy<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>wy<\/strong> (you, plural) &#8211; <strong>pomo\u017cecie<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>oni, one<\/strong> (they, masculine, feminine) \u2013 <strong>pomog\u0105<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and now let\u2019s see what happens with \u201c<strong>pomaga\u0107<\/strong>\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ja<\/strong> (I) \u2013 <strong>b\u0119d\u0119 pomaga\u0107<\/strong> (or for feminine \u201cI\u201d \u2013 <strong>b\u0119d\u0119 pomaga\u0142a<\/strong>; masculine \u2013 <strong>b\u0119d\u0119 pomaga\u0142<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ty<\/strong> (you, singular) \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziesz pomaga\u0107<\/strong> (or for feminine you \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziesz pomaga\u0142a<\/strong>; masculine \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziesz pomaga\u0142<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>on, ona, ono<\/strong> (he, she, it) \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dzie pomaga\u0107<\/strong> (or for she \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dzie pomaga\u0142a<\/strong>, he \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dzie pomaga\u0142<\/strong>, it \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dzie pomaga\u0142o<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>my<\/strong> (we) \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziemy pomaga\u0107<\/strong> (or for feminine we \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziemy pomaga\u0142y<\/strong>; masculine or mixed gender \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziemy pomagali<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>wy<\/strong> (you, plural) \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziecie pomaga\u0107<\/strong> (or for feminine you plural \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziecie pomaga\u0142y<\/strong>; masculine or mixed gender \u2013 <strong>b\u0119dziecie pomagali<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>oni, one<\/strong> (they, masculine, feminine) \u2013 <strong>b\u0119d\u0105 pomaga\u0107<\/strong> (or for feminine they \u2013 <strong>b\u0119d\u0105 pomaga\u0142y<\/strong>; masculine or mixed gender \u2013 <strong>b\u0119d\u0105 pomagali<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the difference? The perfective form is just a single word without any \u201c<strong>b\u0119d\u0119<\/strong>\u201d in front of it. And that\u2019s exactly how you can tell if a verb is perfective or not. All the double bits with \u201c<strong>b\u0119d\u0119\/b\u0119dziesz<\/strong>, etc\u201d are imperfective verbs.<\/p>\n<p>I told you it would be easy. What may not be easy is how to create all those future tense forms. But that\u2019s a whole another story for another blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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