No. 5,359 in Polish
spodziewał
"Spodziewał" means "expected" in English.
In a sentence
Nie spodziewałem się takiego obrotu spraw.
I did not expect such a turn of events.
In this sentence, 'spodziewałem' refers to a first-person past action, indicating a lack of anticipation of the mentioned event.
Czy spodziewał się pan takiego wyniku?
Did you expect such a result, sir?
Here, 'spodziewał' is used in the third-person masculine past form in a question directed formally to someone.
On nie spodziewał się, że to będzie tak trudne.
He didn’t expect it to be this difficult.
This sentence uses 'spodziewał' in the third-person singular masculine past tense to refer to an unexpected difficulty faced by 'he'.
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