Re: Polski & Italiano Episode II: StringerBell Strikes Back
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:35 am
Spanish, French, German, Croatian: flipper (fliper). Those plastic bats that hit the ball when you push the buttons right are called flippers.
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StringerBell wrote:I did another chapter in the Polish Tutor workbook and have changed my mind; I started out liking it a lot, but now I think it sucks. The chapter introducing verb aspects had a total of three examples, which were not even remotely enough to see any kind of pattern when the perfective form is used versus the imperfective form. This topic was one of the main reasons I wanted to use a book to begin with, so I'm really disappointed. Seriously, 3 examples? I guess I'm going to have to try to generate my own examples using RC.
cjareck wrote:You bought a book for Polish and had only three examples?
StringerBell wrote:From this chapter it seems that the perfective form is equivalent to the English "I was doing..." and you use it to describe an action in the past that wasn't completed or was interrupted. The imperfective form is only for an action that was completed 100%. However, I'm not confident about this conclusion because I think it's a little more complicated than this, plus they don't even mention future tense here. But maybe it really is this simple???
Chung wrote:StringerBell wrote:From this chapter it seems that the perfective form is equivalent to the English "I was doing..." and you use it to describe an action in the past that wasn't completed or was interrupted. The imperfective form is only for an action that was completed 100%. However, I'm not confident about this conclusion because I think it's a little more complicated than this, plus they don't even mention future tense here. But maybe it really is this simple???
It's the other way around: IMperfective forms are used to describe incomplete or interrupted actions (~ they are not "perfect" / completed actions). Perfective forms are used to describe completed actions (~ they are "perfect" / completed actions)
reineke wrote:Spanish, French, German, Croatian: flipper (flipper). Those plastic bats that hit the ball when you push the buttons right are called flippers.
Chung wrote:It's the other way around: IMperfective forms are used to describe incomplete or interrupted actions (~ they are not "perfect" / completed actions). Perfective forms are used to describe completed actions (~ they are "perfect" / completed actions)
cjareck wrote:I figured out something interesting, and hopefully useful. There are some exceptions, but is seems to be a rule.
If you take "niedokonany" verb in a present tense and add a right prefix to it, you receive "dokonany" verb in the future tense:
czytam + prze => przeczytam
czytasz + prze => przeczytasz...
- this is the actual sentenceStringerBell wrote:zdanie