Breakdown of Odkąd tu pracuję, moje samopoczucie jest bardzo dobre.
być
to be
tu
here
bardzo
very
dobry
good
pracować
to work
mój
my
odkąd
since
samopoczucie
the well-being
Questions & Answers about Odkąd tu pracuję, moje samopoczucie jest bardzo dobre.
The English translation says "I've been working", but the Polish sentence uses the present tense pracuję. Why?
In Polish, if an action started in the past and is still happening right now, you just use the present tense. The word Odkąd (since) already establishes that the timeframe started in the past, so pracuję simply shows that the working is still going on today. You don't need a complex "past-continuing-into-present" tense like in English.
What exactly does the word samopoczucie mean and how is it built?
Samopoczucie translates roughly to "well-being", "mood", or "state of mind". It's a compound word made of samo- (self) and poczucie (feeling or sense). Because it ends in -e, it is a neuter noun, which is why it takes the neuter adjective dobre (good).
Could I change the word order and say Odkąd pracuję tu... instead of Odkąd tu pracuję...?
If I wanted to talk about a job I already quit, how would this odkąd clause change?
If you are no longer working there, the action is finished, so you would use the past tense. You would say Odkąd tu pracowałem (Since I worked here). But as long as the action is still ongoing in the present, Polish keeps the verb in the present tense after odkąd.
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