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What is the difference between Poczytać and Czytać ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between Poczytać and Czytać ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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You can modify a lot of verbs by attaching "po" at the beginning of the word to give it a more laid-back and casual meaning which focuses on the process itself rather than the result. In English I'd compare it to using "do some verb-ing". The future tense gives a major clue since we can only use "poczytać" and "przeczytać" there (niedokonany vs dokonany).
Chce przeczytać tę książkę w weekend.
I wanna read (and finish) this book on the weekend.
Chcę poczytać tę książkę w weekend.
I just wanna do _some_ reading over the weekend.
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czytać - leer
poczytać - 1. leer un poco sin objetivo concreto, o 2. leer para aprender algo concreto
Mira: 1. Nie mam co robić, więc poczytam sobie trochę, by zabić nudę. Na pewno mam w domu jakąś książkę
2. Nie umiesz gotować rosołu, tego nie da się jeść. Poczytaj jak to się robi i dopiero potem ugotuj ponownie.
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poczytać - lubie sobie poczytać książke, jutro sobie poczytam
czytać- musze teraz czytać
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Czytać is general form of verb "to read"
But "poczytać" means "to read a little bit" in some way.
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1) Czytać - to read for example: ALL TIME I want to read, 2) Poczytać - SOMETIMES I want to read.
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