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✅ Compendium
Grammar
PL
Polski — verb aspect
Most Polish verbs come in pairs: an imperfective form (robić) for a process or a repeated action, and a perfective form (zrobić) for a single, finished action with a result.
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How it works
✓ Rule
The imperfective has a present tense and a compound future (będę robić). The perfective has no present at all: its present-looking forms express the future — zrobię means "I will do / finish".
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Examples
| Imperfective | Perfective | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| robić | zrobić | to do |
| czytać | przeczytać | to read |
| pisać | napisać | to write |
| kupować | kupić | to buy |
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Good to know
⚠ Note
Choose the imperfective for a habit or an ongoing process, the perfective for one finished action. Only the imperfective forms the być-future (będę czytać); the perfective's present-looking form is already the future (przeczytam = "I will read it through").