No. 17,292 in Polish
zamawiali
"Zamawiali" means "they were ordering" in English.
In a sentence
Wczoraj zamawiali pizzę na kolację.
Yesterday, they were ordering pizza for dinner.
The word 'zamawiali' here is used in the imperfective past tense, indicating a continuous or habitual action in the past performed by a plural subject.
Czy zamawialiście już bilety na koncert?
Have you already ordered the tickets for the concert?
In this sentence, 'zamawialiście' (conjugated form of 'zamawiali') refers to a question in the past where the subject is a plural second person.
My zamawialiśmy obiad dla wszystkich.
We were ordering lunch for everyone.
Here, 'zamawialiśmy' is used by a first-person plural subject in the past, suggesting an ongoing activity.
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