Questions & Answers about Uda nam się uciec z tego pokoju.
Why isn't the verb conjugated for "we" if the sentence means "We will manage"?
In Polish, managing or succeeding is expressed impersonally using the verb udać się. The structure literally translates to "It will succeed to us." The verb is always in the 3rd-person singular (here, uda), and the person who succeeds takes the Dative case (here, the pronoun nam meaning "to us").
Is uda in the present or future tense?
It is in the future tense. The verb udać się is perfective, meaning it describes a completed action. When you apply present-tense conjugation rules to a perfective verb, it automatically creates the future tense. Therefore, uda means "it will succeed" rather than "it is succeeding".
Why is the reflexive pronoun się placed after nam instead of right next to the verb?
Short pronouns like nam and się don't carry their own stress, so they tend to cluster together right after the first stressed word in the clause. Both uda nam się and uda się nam are completely correct, but clustering them as nam się sounds very natural here.
Why do we use the preposition z instead of od for "from" in this sentence?