Breakdown of Kiedy będzie można odrestaurować stary zegar dziadka?
być
to be
stary
old
dziadek
the grandfather
kiedy
when
można
one can, it is possible / allowed (+ infinitive)
zegar
clock
odrestaurować
to restore
Questions & Answers about Kiedy będzie można odrestaurować stary zegar dziadka?
How do we form the future tense of można in this sentence?
The word można (it is possible / one can) is an impersonal predicate, meaning it never changes form. To make it future tense, you just put the third-person singular future form of the verb to be (będzie) directly in front of it, creating będzie można.
Why is the perfective verb odrestaurować used after a future tense phrase like będzie można?
The phrase będzie można handles the future tense, so the main action verb must stay in the infinitive. We use the perfective infinitive odrestaurować because the speaker is asking about the successful completion of the repair, not the ongoing process of fixing it.
Is stary zegar the subject of this sentence since it is the main thing we are talking about?
No, stary zegar is the direct object of the verb odrestaurować, so it is in the accusative case. Sentences with będzie można are impersonal and do not have a grammatical subject. Since zegar is a masculine inanimate noun, its accusative form happens to look identical to its nominative form.
Could I put the possessive dziadka before the noun, just like in English?
It is much more natural to keep it after the noun. In Polish, when you use the genitive case to show possession (like dziadka for grandpa's), it almost always comes immediately after the thing being owned. This gives us the standard word order stary zegar dziadka (the old clock of grandpa).
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