Breakdown of Nawet jeśli warszawianka wyjedzie, wrocławianka zostanie tutaj.
zostać
to stay
jeśli
if
tutaj
here
wyjechać
to leave / to go away (by vehicle)
nawet
even
warszawianka
female inhabitant of Warsaw
wrocławianka
female inhabitant of Wroclaw
Questions & Answers about Nawet jeśli warszawianka wyjedzie, wrocławianka zostanie tutaj.
How are the words warszawianka and wrocławianka formed from their city names?
Female inhabitants of Polish cities usually take the suffix -anka or -ianka. For Warsaw (Warszawa), the stem is warszaw-, and adding -ianka gives warszawianka. For Wrocław, the stem wrocław- plus -ianka creates wrocławianka. The male equivalents end in -anin (warszawianin, wrocławianin).
Why aren't warszawianka and wrocławianka capitalized in this sentence?
Unlike in English, Polish spelling rules dictate that inhabitants of cities, towns, and villages are always written with lowercase letters. You only capitalize nouns for inhabitants of countries, regions, and continents, such as Polka or Europejczyk. Therefore, while the city Warszawa gets a capital letter, its resident warszawianka does not.
Why do the verbs wyjedzie and zostanie translate to the future tense when they look like present tense forms?
Both wyjechać (to leave by vehicle) and zostać (to stay) are perfective verbs. In Polish, conjugating a perfective verb with present-tense endings automatically creates the simple future tense. This is because a perfective, completed action cannot happen in the continuous present.
Why is jeśli used here instead of gdyby for the word if?
The word jeśli is used for real, possible conditions and is followed by the regular indicative mood, which is the future tense wyjedzie here. If the sentence were purely hypothetical or unlikely, translating to Even if she were to leave, Polish would use gdyby followed by a past tense verb form to create the conditional mood: Nawet gdyby wyjechała.
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