Monday 20 July 2009

The Infinitive (Bezokolicznik)

The infinitive is the basic form of the verb, the one you'll find in dictionaries and that you'll easily spot due to the ending ć : czytać (to read), pisać (to write), kupić (to buy) (most of the times. You probably guessed, there are exceptions even to this elementary rule*). We'll need the infinitive to form the future, but also for some specific constructions with modal verbs or some particular nouns - since it's very easy to learn & use, you'll soon notice how these constructions enrich your vocabulary :)

* and here are the exceptions: verbs ending in c, like
móc (can): mogę, możesz, może
piec (to bake): piekę, pieczesz, piecze
biec (to run): biegnę, biegniesz, biegnie
strzec (to guard): strzegę, strzeżesz, streże

Here are the most frequent constructions requiring the infinitive.

3 comments:

  1. I thought that móc and pomóc were the only ones that end in -c. I'll try to remeber all these exceptions!

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  2. Do you all know of any german polish learning resources?

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  3. This is a page http://call.tu-dresden.de/leonardo/polnisch/sme/programme/modul1a/start.htm by the University of Dresden, they start off at beginner's level. And here you have a Polish German community: http://www.d-pl.eu/index_forum.php for people from Germany who want to learn Polish and the other way round. Maybe these guys could help you with moe hints :)Good luck!

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