THE PAST - I was in Warsaw

Like most languages, very commonly used verbs don't follow the normal rules. 'Być' (to be) is one of these.

So how would you say:

So how would you say

Remember the 'w', when it means 'on' bounces us into the Accusative case - so we have Accusative endings: W zeszłą sobotę

So how would you say:

This last sentence is a good example of multiple case in one sentence:

W zeszła sobotę - accusative because we are after 'w' being used as 'on'
szukałem pracy - genetive because something is missing, we were looking for it
w Warszawie - locative because we are after 'w' being used as 'in'

Future, Present and Past Tense

Click and drag the phrases or words into their correct tenses.

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Match these translations of points of time

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Today

dziś

w ten piątek

one year ago

wczoraj

yesterday

jutro

Last Saturday

tomorrow

rok temu

dziś po południu

last Friday

this Saturday

w tą sobotę

this Friday

w zeszłą sobotę

w zeszły piątek

this afternoon

Practice the sentences from the lesson.

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I am in Warsaw	q3\|Jestem w Warszawie

I was in Warsaw	(male) q3\|Byłem w Warszawie

I was in Warsaw	(female) q3\|Byłam w Warszawie

One year ago I was in Warsaw	(male) q3\|Rok temu byłem w Warszawie

One year ago I was in Warsaw	(female) q3\|Rok temu byłam w Warszawie

One year ago I was in Kraków	(female) q3\|Rok temu byłam w Krakowie

One year ago I was in Lublin	(female) q3\|Rok temu byłam w Lublinie

Yesterday I was in Warsaw	(male) q3\|Wczoraj byłem w Warszawie

Yesterday I was in the supermarket	(male) q3\|Wczoraj byłem w supermarkecie

Yesterday I was in the old hotel	(female) q3\|Wczoraj byłam w starym hotelu

Yesterday I was in the new chemist/drug store	(female) q3\|Wczoraj byłam w nowej aptece

Last Saturday I was in the supermarket	(male)

Last Friday I was in Warsaw	(male) q3\|W zeszły piątek byłem w Warszawie

Last Friday I was in Lublin	(female) q3\|W zeszły piątek byłam w Lublinie

Last Friday I had your car	(female)

Last Saturday I was looking for work in Warsaw	(male)