No. 54 in Polish
powiedział
"Powiedział" means "he said" or "he told" in English.
In a sentence
Marek powiedział, że przyjdzie później.
Marek said that he will come later.
In this sentence, 'powiedział' means 'said' and is used to indicate Marek's act of stating or communicating something in the past.
Gdy się zapytałem, odpowiedział tylko: 'Powiedziałem za dużo'.
When I asked him, he only replied: 'I said too much'.
'Powiedziałem' is the first person plural past tense of 'powiedzieć', used here to refer to the act of stating in a narrative.
Mama zapytała, kto to powiedział.
Mom asked who said that.
Here, 'powiedział' is again in the third person singular past tense, portraying the act of speaking or stating in past. This time, it's used in an interrogative context.
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