Dokonany/Niedokonany - Perfective/Imperfective

This is something that I am struggling with at the moment (I find myself using things like jestem biorę until someone introduces me to wziąć), and I am trying to organize myself around the idea. Does anyone know any resources to locate Perfective/Imperfective pairs?

And does anyone know if there are any auxiliary verbs in Polish (will, shall), I miss them, haha?

'Musieć' = to have to (must)
'Powinnic' = ought to (should)
móc = to be able to (can)

.....are common modal verbs in Polish. "Auxilliaries" as in English "DO you speak Polish?" etc. don't exist in most languages other than English, in addition, Poles find English-language tag questions rather strange sounding. In English: "Do you like books?" -Yes, I DO. vs. Polish "Czy lubisz książki?" = Tak, lubię. (lit "...Yes, I like.)

Will have to get back to you later about the other verb questions.

That was really helpful thanks :) I never thought of 'do' that way, I find it funny how much I've learned about English grammer studying Polish!

I found a similar topic:
http://www.polishforums.com/share_perfective_imperfective-18_17963_0.h tml

It should be
powinien (he/on)/powinna (she/ona)/powinno (it/to/ono) = should

Powinienem, Powinnam

this verb simply has no infinitive form in Polish

btw, I've just noticed that there's a quite long Wikipedia article on this subject, I can't verify if all they say is true, but it's a good start (there are also some interesting links below that article)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_aspect

Whoops, guys! Clean forgot "powinnem" has no infinitive form (bezokolicznik!!).

Muchos apologies - - -:):)

this word doesn't even exist

This is correct grammar in English but in most European languages it is translated as I take therefore ja biorę-I am taking or ik neem as it would be in Dutch. The concept of I am doing something in the present tense is not a slavonic trend at all.
Buy a book of polish verbs. They are all listed with the differences between perfective and imperfective tenses.

Witaj, Wyśpiańsko!

Wiem. Poprawny jest 'powinniam', nie prawda?

Powinienem (male)
Powinnam (female)

Dzięki!

AVE lol


true : )