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The compound future tense - Polish
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12 July 2010 at 7:13pm | IP Logged

What, if any, is the difference between będę robić and będę robił/robiła?
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12 July 2010 at 7:28pm | IP Logged

"Instead of the past-tense forms, one may also use the infinitive; ... The use of the past-tense forms is much more frequent in colloquial Polish, especially with personal subjects, and is somewhat more frequent with male reference than with female."

Source:
A Grammar of Contemporary Polish
Oscar E. Swan
Bloomington, Indiana, 2002
page 256

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12 July 2010 at 8:42pm | IP Logged

There is no semantic difference, they mean the same thing.
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charlotte
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13 July 2010 at 12:39pm | IP Logged

I see no difference, but as a native I'd rather use the form with infinitive :)
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13 July 2010 at 2:41pm | IP Logged

charlotte wrote:

I see no difference, but as a native I'd rather use the form with infinitive :)

And I - as a native - prefer to use the past-tense form.
However, in questions, I pretty much always use the infinitive.
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charlotte
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14 July 2010 at 11:07am | IP Logged

Derian wrote:

charlotte wrote:

I see no difference, but as a native I'd rather use the form with infinitive :)

And I - as a native - prefer to use the past-tense form.
However, in questions, I pretty much always use the infinitive.

Sure, we use both forms but it's easier to learn the simplest one ;)
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17 July 2010 at 5:56pm | IP Logged

Thanks for all the replies.

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