Language/Polish/Grammar/Past-Tense

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Introduction

Like the future tense (Language/Polish/Grammar/Future-Tense), the Polish past tense has two aspects, perfective and imperfective, and is shown with the same pairs.

Polish past tense will tell you person, number, gender, and aspect.

Basic rules are as follows: directly after the verb stem, you can have e (or nothing) which indicate the person or object is masculine, a, which indicates feminine.

There's also i which indicates at least one or more Animate/living male persons, or y which indicates no animate/living male persons. Directly after these you may have m, which indicates first person, ś which indicates second, nothing, which indicates third singular or third plural, śmy which indicates first plural, or ście, which is second plural.

For clarity, examples will be given below.

Perfective

Zrobić

Singular Male Female Neuter
1st (ja) Zrobiłem Zrobiłam
2nd (ty) Zrobiłeś Zrobiłaś
3rd (on, ona, ono) Zrobił Zrobiła Zrobiło
Plural masculine (męskoosobowy) not masculine (niemęskoosobowy)
1st (my) Zrobiliśmy Zrobiłyście
2nd (wy) Zrobiliście Zrobiłyście
3rd (oni/one) Zrobili Zrobiły

Imperfective

Próbować

Singular Male Female Neuter
1st (ja) Próbowałem Próbowałam
2nd (ty) Próbowałeś Próbowałaś
3rd (on, ona, ono) Próbował Próbowała Próbowało
Plural masculine (męskoosobowy) not masculine (niemęskoosobowy)
1st (my) Próbowaliśmy Próbowałyście
2nd (wy) Próbowaliście Próbowałyście
3rd (oni/one) Próbowali Próbowały

Polish language-past tense - perfective and imperfective:

singular number

- 1st person  : male, female

- 2nd person : male, female

- 3rd person : male, female, neute

plural number :

- 1st person  : masculine , not masculine

- 2nd person : masculine, not masculine

-3rd person  : masculine, not masculine

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