Breakdown of Po tym eksperymencie okazało się, że artykuł jest nieprawdziwy.
być
to be
ten
this (m)
artykuł
article
że
that
po
after; for (to fetch)
okazać się
to turn out (perf)
eksperyment
experiment
nieprawdziwy
untrue
Questions & Answers about Po tym eksperymencie okazało się, że artykuł jest nieprawdziwy.
Why is the verb in the neuter form okazało się instead of masculine or feminine?
When a verb introduces a że (that) clause without a specific noun as the subject, Polish uses the third-person singular neuter form. Think of it as the equivalent of the English dummy subject "it" in "it turned out".
The lesson mentions a Dative experiencer. Could we say okazało mi się here?
While verbs like wydawać się (to seem) frequently take a Dative experiencer like mi (to me), okazać się is most often used as a general statement of objective fact meaning "it turned out". Adding a Dative to specify who found it out is possible but less common in everyday Polish.
In English we would usually say "it turned out that the article WAS untrue". Why does Polish use the present tense jest?
Polish does not use the "sequence of tenses" rule like English does. When describing what was discovered, Polish keeps the verb inside the że clause in the tense that was true at the time of the discovery. Since the article "is" untrue at that moment, you use the present tense jest.
Why do we use tym eksperymencie after po?
The preposition po (meaning "after") requires the Locative case. The basic Nominative phrase ten eksperyment changes to tym eksperymencie in the Locative.
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