Friday, May 21, 2010

NOUNS INTO VERBS

Polish writing often has phrases with subjects, objects, and actions all expressed by nouns. Here is such a phrase “na pytanie o możliwość ludzkiej wolności”. Literally: “to the question of the possibility of human freedom” — it is more natural in English to use a clause that could be its own little sentence: “to the question of whether human freedom was [or is] possible”.

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