Breakdown of Pierwszy tom powieści zostanie opublikowany za rok.
rok
year
pierwszy
first
za
behind; in (time)
powieść
novel
zostać
to be (passive auxiliary)
opublikować
to publish
tom
the volume
Questions & Answers about Pierwszy tom powieści zostanie opublikowany za rok.
Why do we use zostanie instead of będzie for 'will be' here?
In Polish, to form the passive voice of a perfective (completed) action in the future, we use the future tense of zostać (here, zostanie) plus the passive participle (opublikowany). If the action were imperfective, we would use będzie. Publishing a book is seen as a one-time completed event, so we use zostanie.
This lesson is about expressing the agent with przez. Why is it missing from this sentence?
The passive voice is frequently used when the doer (agent) of the action is unknown, obvious, or unimportant. Here, the specific publisher isn't mentioned. If you wanted to state who is publishing it, you would add przez plus the Accusative case to the end, like: zostanie opublikowany przez autora (will be published by the author).
Why is 'of the novel' translated as powieści?
Powieści is the Genitive case form of the feminine noun powieść (novel). Because powieść ends in a soft consonant, it takes the ending -i in the Genitive case to show possession or relationship (the volume OF the novel).
How does za rok work to mean 'in a year'?
To express that something will happen 'in' a certain amount of time in the future, Polish uses the preposition za followed by the Accusative case. Since rok (year) is an inanimate masculine noun, its Accusative form is identical to its Nominative form, giving us za rok.
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