"Gdzie teraz płyniecie?"
Translation:Where are you swimming now?
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Would "Where do you swim now?" also be correct? It is my understanding that these verbs can describe either a progressive (current) action or a frequent/repetitive action.
The sentence is "Gdzie teraz płyniecie?" - there is no "w", there is no "basen". The only problem that "gdzie" instead of "dokąd" in meaning of destination is colloquial, but it is however accepted in spoken language
płynąć is only current but it should be noted that "Gdzie teraz płyniecie?" describes an action of eiher swimming or going using boat/ship/ferry/motorbike etc and also well means "water equivalent" of where are you going, not where are you walking? the question is not about the place but destination. I think question should be dokąd płyniecie, it's more accurate.
Pływać is more complicated- as it can mean both now and freqentative, but now it's a movement witout a destination. Gdzie teraz pływacie - np which swimming pool you use this winter can be translated to Where do you swim now?- unless there is an English rule against it
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Does Polish make the difference between where and where to (like in German wo / wohin)? Can we understand it as where are you going by swimming as well as where are you currently swimming?
we do, but we are not as strict as Germans. "Dokąd" means "wohin", "gdzie" means both.
On the other hand "płynąć" means to swim right now, with a destination, while "pływać" means to swim usually, or without any destination (like in the pool).
This sentence is more likely to mean "Where are you swimming to".
No.
- General rules of adverb position: https://www.espressoenglish.net/position-of-adverbs-in-english-sentences/ , https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjective-and-adverb-phrases/adverb-phrases
- Placing of "now" in a phrase: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adverbs-of-time-and-frequency/now
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"Where are you now sailing/swimming?" is a correct word order. If you follow your last link, you'll find several examples of "now" being used in mid position. It should definitely be accepted.
I can't tell you what the exact difference between the examples mentioned in the link and this one is, but they are definitely not comparable.
I've compared
what are you now _v?g ?
vs.
what are you _v?g now ?
in the corpus and got a 1 : 250 result ratio, which at least should make you suspicious.
(due to a programming error, the corpus wouldn't let me search for phrases that start with 'where', so I chose 'what' instead, which shouldn't make a difference)
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Hmm, the only difference I see is that we have a question here. "We're now sailing on the Baltic Sea" or "We're now sailing to Poland" should be correct, according to the linked article. So are there different rules for questions?