Mimo że miodobranie jeszcze trwa, pszczelarz jest już zmęczony.

Mimo że means although, even though, or despite the fact that.

In this sentence:

Mimo że miodobranie jeszcze trwa, pszczelarz jest już zmęczony.
= Even though the honey harvest is still going on, the beekeeper is already tired.

A useful thing to notice:

• mimo że = a conjunction introducing a full clause
• mimo by itself is different and is followed by a noun in the genitive, for example:
  • mimo deszczu = despite the rain

So:

• mimo że pada = although it is raining
• mimo deszczu = despite the rain

The comma separates the subordinate clause from the main clause.

Here the subordinate clause is:

Mimo że miodobranie jeszcze trwa
and the main clause is:

pszczelarz jest już zmęczony

In Polish, clauses introduced by conjunctions like że, gdy, kiedy, chociaż, mimo że are normally separated by a comma.

So the comma here is required.

Miodobranie is a noun meaning honey harvest, honey collection, or more specifically in beekeeping, the extraction/collecting of honey from the hives.

It comes from:

• miód = honey
• branie = taking / collecting

So literally it is something like honey-taking, but in natural English you would say honey harvest or honey extraction.

It is a neuter singular noun.

Because nouns ending in -anie, -enie, or -cie are very often verbal nouns in Polish, and these are usually neuter.

Examples:

• czytanie = reading
• gotowanie = cooking
• palenie = smoking
• miodobranie = honey harvesting / honey extraction

That is why Polish treats miodobranie as neuter, even though in English harvest is not grammatically neuter.

Jeszcze trwa means is still going on, is still continuing, or still lasts.

• jeszcze = still / yet
• trwa = lasts / continues / is ongoing

The verb is trwać = to last, to continue, to go on.

So:

• Miodobranie jeszcze trwa = The honey harvest is still going on

This sounds natural in Polish for an activity that has not finished yet.

They create a contrast:

• jeszcze trwa = is still continuing
• już zmęczony = already tired

So the sentence highlights that:

• the activity has not finished yet
• but the beekeeper is already tired anyway

This pairing is very common in Polish and sounds natural:

• Jeszcze pracuje, ale jest już zmęczony.
• It’s still going on, but he is already tired.

It gives the sentence a nice sense of tension or contrast.

In standard Polish, you normally need the verb być (to be) in the present tense:

• jest zmęczony = is tired

So:

• pszczelarz jest już zmęczony = the beekeeper is already tired

Unlike Russian, Polish usually does not drop the present-tense form of to be in normal sentences.

Because it agrees with pszczelarz.

• pszczelarz = a masculine singular noun
• so the adjective must also be masculine singular
• therefore: zmęczony

Other forms would be:

• zmęczona for a feminine singular subject
• zmęczone for a neuter singular subject
• zmęczeni / zmęczone for plural subjects

Examples:

• Pszczelarka jest zmęczona. = The female beekeeper is tired.
• Dziecko jest zmęczone. = The child is tired.
• Pszczelarze są zmęczeni. = The beekeepers are tired.

It is in the nominative singular because it is the subject of the main clause.

The main clause is:

pszczelarz jest już zmęczony

Here:

• pszczelarz = subject
• jest = verb
• zmęczony = predicate adjective

So nominative is exactly what you would expect.

Yes. Polish word order is fairly flexible, although different orders can shift emphasis.

The original sentence:

Mimo że miodobranie jeszcze trwa, pszczelarz jest już zmęczony.

You could also say:

• Pszczelarz jest już zmęczony, mimo że miodobranie jeszcze trwa.
• Mimo że jeszcze trwa miodobranie, pszczelarz jest już zmęczony.

All of these are understandable. The original version sounds natural and neutral.

In Polish, changing word order often affects focus rather than basic meaning.

Yes. Jeszcze is often translated as either still or yet, depending on the sentence.

Here it means still:

• miodobranie jeszcze trwa = the honey harvest is still going on

Compare:

• Jeszcze pracuję. = I’m still working.
• Jeszcze nie skończyłem. = I haven’t finished yet.

So English may use still or yet, but Polish often uses jeszcze in both types of situations.

This is a hard word for many English speakers because of the consonant cluster at the beginning.

pszczelarz is pronounced approximately like:

psh-che-laʂ

A rough English-friendly guide:

• pszcz sounds roughly like pshch
• e like e in bed
• larz ends with a sound like lash, but with a Polish rz/ż sound before it

A more careful breakdown:

• pszcz = a compressed cluster, something like pshch
• e = short eh
• larz = lash / lazh depending on how approximate you want to be

You do not need to pronounce each letter separately the way an English speaker might first try to.

Yes. Trwa is the 3rd person singular present tense of trwać.

• trwać = to last / to continue
• trwa = lasts / continues / is ongoing

Because miodobranie is singular, the verb is singular too:

• Miodobranie trwa. = The honey harvest continues.

This present tense is used naturally for something happening right now.

Yes, in many contexts the meaning would be very similar.

For example:

• Chociaż miodobranie jeszcze trwa, pszczelarz jest już zmęczony.

This also means:

• Although the honey harvest is still going on, the beekeeper is already tired.

Very roughly:

• mimo że can feel a bit like despite the fact that
• chociaż is a very common although / though

In this sentence, both work well.

Because Polish has no articles.

So:

• pszczelarz can mean the beekeeper or a beekeeper
• miodobranie can mean the honey harvest or simply honey harvesting

English requires articles, but Polish does not. The context tells you whether the meaning is definite or indefinite.

In this sentence, English would usually translate it as:

• the beekeeper
• the honey harvest

because the situation sounds specific.