Często dostaję trudne zadania.

I often get difficult tasks.

Breakdown of Często dostaję trudne zadania.

• trudny: difficult
• często: often
• zadanie: the task
• dostawać: to get

Questions & Answers about Często dostaję trudne zadania.

What part of speech is często, and how is it used in the sentence?

Często is an adverb meaning often. It modifies the verb to indicate frequency. In Polish you normally place it before the verb—as in Często dostaję…—but you can move it elsewhere for emphasis.

How do I pronounce często, and where is the word stress?

• cz = English “ch” in “church”
• ę = a nasal vowel, somewhat like French “en” in “bien”
• Stress in Polish falls on the penultimate syllable: CZĘ-sto

What is the infinitive form and aspect of dostaję, and what tense is it?

• Infinitive: dostawać (imperfective)
• Tense: 1st person singular present
• Aspect: Imperfective, used for habitual or ongoing actions (“I get/receive regularly”).

Why use the imperfective dostawać here instead of the perfective dostać?

Imperfective verbs (like dostawać) express repeated, habitual or ongoing actions. Since you “often receive” tasks, you need an imperfective form. A perfective verb (like dostać) would imply a single, completed event.

What’s the difference between dostaję and otrzymuję? Can I swap them?

Both mean “to receive,” but:

• dostawać/dostać is neutral and very common in everyday speech
• otrzymywać/otrzymać is more formal or official
  You can swap them grammatically, but dostawać feels more natural in casual contexts.

What case is trudne zadania, and why does it match the nominative form?

• Zadania is a neuter noun in plural.
• For neuter nouns, the nominative and accusative plural forms are identical.
• Here it’s accusative because it’s the direct object of dostaję, and trudne is the neuter-plural form of the adjective trudny (“difficult”).

Why is the adjective trudne and not trudni?

Adjectives must agree in gender, number and case with the noun.

• Zadania is neuter, non-personal, plural → adjective ending -e (“trudne”).
• Trudni would be for masculine-personal plural (e.g., trudni ludzie “difficult people”).

Is the word order fixed? Could I say Dostaję często trudne zadania?

Polish word order is flexible.

• Często dostaję trudne zadania (adverb first) is most neutral.
• Dostaję często trudne zadania is also correct but slightly less common; it shifts focus onto the verb dostaję.

How would I say “I received a difficult task” to describe one completed event?

Switch to the perfective dostać in the past tense:

• If you’re male: Dostałem trudne zadanie.
• If you’re female: Dostałam trudne zadanie.