Learn Polish: Będziemy spędzali dużo czasu w ogrodzie. - We will be spending a lot of time in the garden.

In Polish, you can form the future imperfective tense in two ways: by combining the future form of the verb to be (będziemy) with either the infinitive (spędzać) or the l-participle (spędzali). Both mean the exact same thing! This sentence uses the l-participle, which must agree with the gender and number of the subject. Because the group includes at least one male person here, we use the masculine personal plural form spędzali.

How would this sentence change if the speakers were a group of women?

If the group consisted entirely of women, the l-participle would need to take the non-masculine personal form. You would change spędzali to spędzały, making the phrase będziemy spędzały. The helper verb będziemy stays exactly the same.

Why is the word for time spelled czasu here instead of its base form czas?

The word dużo means a lot or much. In Polish, whenever you use a quantifier like dużo, mało (few/little), or trochę (some), the noun that follows must be in the Genitive case. The Genitive singular form of the masculine noun czas is czasu.

What happens to the word ogród (garden) to make it ogrodzie?