Mam nadzieję, że uda nam się dopasować te symbole.
I hope that we will manage to match these symbols.
Breakdown of Mam nadzieję, że uda nam się dopasować te symbole.
mieć
to have
ten
this (m)
że
that
nadzieja
hope
nam
us (dative)
udać się
to succeed, to work out (udało się)
dopasować
to match / to fit
symbol
symbol
Questions & Answers about Mam nadzieję, że uda nam się dopasować te symbole.
Why do we use uda nam się instead of conjugating the verb for "we", like udamy się?
In Polish, expressing success or managing to do something is impersonal. You use the third-person singular form uda się (it will succeed) and add the person experiencing the success in the dative case. Here, nam means to us, so uda nam się literally means it will succeed to us. If you conjugate this verb personally as udamy się, it completely changes the meaning to we will head or we will go somewhere.
Is uda present or future tense here?
It is the future tense. The verb udać is perfective, meaning it focuses on a completed action. For perfective verbs, conjugating them with present-tense endings actually creates the future tense. If you wanted to say we are managing right now in the present tense, you would use the imperfective equivalent udawać to make udaje nam się.
Why is się separated from uda by the word nam?
The reflexive pronoun się is an enclitic, meaning it is a "weak" word that avoids the very beginning or the very end of a sentence or clause. When there is another short pronoun like nam, Polish speakers often tuck się in after it to create a natural rhythm. However, saying uda się nam is also grammatically correct.
Why does the sentence use nadzieję instead of the dictionary form nadzieja?
The phrase for I hope in Polish is literally I have hope (mam nadzieję). The verb mieć (to have) requires its direct object to be in the accusative case. Because nadzieja is a feminine noun ending in -a, it changes its ending to -ę in the accusative.
How does dopasować differ from just pasować?
The base verb pasować is imperfective and generally means to fit or to suit. Adding the prefix do- creates the perfective verb dopasować, which adds the specific sense of adjusting, aligning, or matching things up so they fit perfectly together.
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