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Polish Pluperfect Tense
czas zaprzeszły
The pluperfect is an archaic Polish tense indicating an action that happened before another past event.
The Pluperfect tense in Polish (czas zaprzeszły) is formed by combining the past tense of the main verb with the past tense of "być" (to be), e.g., "napisałem był" (I had written). While standard in the 19th century, it is extremely rare in modern Polish and mostly found in literature or legal documents.
Examples
Słyszałem był o tym projekcie.
I had heard about this project.
Zrobiliśmy byli to zadanie wczoraj.
We had done this task yesterday.
Kto to był napisał?
Who had written this?
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