spodziewał

This is the 5359th most frequent Polish word.


spodziewał

"Spodziewał" means "expected" in English.


In this sentence, 'spodziewałem' refers to a first-person past action, indicating a lack of anticipation of the mentioned event.

Nie spodziewałem się takiego obrotu spraw.

I did not expect such a turn of events.


Here, 'spodziewał' is used in the third-person masculine past form in a question directed formally to someone.

Czy spodziewał się pan takiego wyniku?

Did you expect such a result, sir?


This sentence uses 'spodziewał' in the third-person singular masculine past tense to refer to an unexpected difficulty faced by 'he'.

On nie spodziewał się, że to będzie tak trudne.

He didn’t expect it to be this difficult.