Learning Polish every day until I'm fluent - Day 159

[@InnocentyNiewinny]

"myślałem" is an imperfective verb and can be translated "I thought" or " I was thinking" "pomyślałem" [I thought/I have thought] is an accomplished verb gotowaLIśmy (masculine gender), gotowaŁYśmy (feminine) By the way this is also an example of an imperfective verb. The accomplished verb in this case is: ugotowaliśmy/ugotowałyśmy

[@nowekenFwehcoco]

Polish is hard in my opinion, but the fact you've made it to 159 days without giving up (like I did) truly shows how dedicated you are to learning Polish

[@falanhio531]

5:55 pokazywać, szukać pokazywaliście - you were showing (masculine form) szukaliście - you were looking for (also masculine)

[@Mvv1938]

Fun thing about polish is that one word consists of like 6 factors and tbh a lot of irregular(idk if there is even smth "regular") im a native speaker btw so Powodzenia

[@falanhio531]

1:25 We are dealing here with Imperfective and Perfective form of the verb. So: Imperfective basically means that the activity you were doing were not finished. It was endelss, incomplete, not finished or it was a process. For example "ja czytałem książkę" - "I was reading a book". You were reading a book but we have no idea how long were you reading. You could be reading 2 minutes, 4 hours or a even a day. You are not done with the book yet Perfective is when the activity you were doing got stopped or finished. In this case, you finished the book, "ja przeczytałem książkę" - "I read the book". We know that your activity has been finished, by your own free will. I am not a teacher but I hope my explanation with be useful for you, good luck with polish language mate

[@falanhio531]

where are you from btw?

[@fitjajko]

@@falanhio531 I am from England :)

[@dustynmiller6021]

This is me but russian 😅 i wanna start polish but it seems SO HARD

[@fitjajko]

If i can do it, anyone can 😁

[@dustynmiller6021]

​@@fitjajko If you don't mind me asking, what resources do you recommend for starting?

[@fitjajko]

Duolingo will do great work for teaching you new words. I also have a grammar book 'Polish for Dummies'

[@PolishSwiss_Ball]

Do you accept friend requests on Duolingo?

[@fitjajko]

Tak! My name is fitjajko

[@PolishSwiss_Ball]

@ Dziękuję panie jajko😄

[@kerimdursun8774]

you can't learn any language by just doing duolingo i'm not even talking about being fluent

[@fitjajko]

I agree, also I don't use only Duolingo. However I did see a guy on youtube learn Spanish only with Duolingo and he seems amazing

[@falanhio531]

4:10 in polish our verbs say quite a lot about the acvitity we were doing, lets take for example word from your video, "gotować" "to cook". And we take the Imperfective form, so it will be "was cooking" and not "cooked". all in the past form ja (I) - "gotować", we cut the ending so we have gotowa.... łem, gotowałem ty (you) - gotowa... łeś, gotowałeś on (he) - gotowa... ł, gotował ona (she) - gotowa... ła, gotowała ono (it) - gotowa... ło, gotowało my (we) - gotowa... liśmy, gotowaliśmy wy (you) - gotowa... liście, gotowaliście oni (they) - gotowa... li, gotowali In my opinion the best wat to learn it is to take notes in a notebook. Usually the way they change has a rule. The verb "sprzątać" - "to clean" changes the same way. (all of them are past form) Sprzątałem, sprzątałeś, sprzątał, sprzątała, sprzątało, sprzątaliśmy, sprzątaliście

[@falanhio531]

Oh yeah and I forgot, the verb differs in you, we, you and they; depending on the gender. ty sprzątałaś (you, feminime) my sprzątałyśmy (we, feminime) so I can comment that we, two or more women were cleaning wy sprzątałyście (you, feminime) one (feminime form of oni) sprzątały (they. feminime) in plural, when the gropu of people is mixed, for example we have both women and man, the verb has the masculine form, for example: 2 women and 3 men - (we) sprzątaliśmy, (they) sprzątali, (you) sprzątaliśmy

[@fitjajko]

@@falanhio531 My mind is blown from all this information. Thank you though!