Witajcie!
Santayana has said: “Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it”. This aphorismus is very relevant to us since we don’t want to make any mistakes now and in the future. To avoid them, we’ll need to cover the history first – that is, the Past Tense. Though it’s never to late, let’s waste no time.
A Brief History of (Past) Time
The past of the Past Tense in Polish is quite colorful and throughout the ages several changes had happened to it. However, I an unable to list it all, and even if I could, there would be no one to read it. Hence, I’ll try to be concise. There are two facts relevant to us:
The first most important thing is that conteporarily we create the Past tense simply by conjugating the infinitives. In the past, however, we did it by adding appropriate to participles. Although this no longer happens, it has influenced the contemporary inflection. As we distinguish genders in participles, we will do the same with the Past Tense conjugation.
The second major change is that we no longer use any auxilliary verb in the Past Tense. However, the book language has retained Past Perfect (also Pluperfect or Plusquamperfectum, pol. Czas zaprzeszły) which is understood by the majority of Poles, but hardly ever used. This tense is not indigenous to the Polish and was probably introduced due to the influence of languages such as German or French. Also, the past for of the verb być owes its extraordinary stress in the Past Tense thanks to the merger of Pluperfect and the Past Tense.
The Usage of the Past Tense
In Polish we use the Past Tense to talk about the past. As simple as that. Period.
The Past Tense
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The Creation of the Past Tense
We’ve previously said that the contemporary Past Tense is derived from infinitive.
The Conjugation of the Past Tense
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