"Będziemy używały nożyczek."

Translation: We will be using scissors.

[Marcel250]

A or the? Both are possible?

[Jellei]

Well, scissors are plural, so "a" is not an option. "the" works.

[Jan.K.M]

The, although technically correct, just sounds funny. A native speaker wouldn't use it unless talking about some special pair of scissors (which I can't realistically imagine except for possibly in a comedic sense)

[HelbentForleder]

What's wrong with 'We're going to be using scissors?'

[Jellei]

Nothing, it should have worked already.

[Arnoldpitt]

Utterly confused . I thought having L with a stroke indicated past tense. Now it is involved in the future continuous or whatever you call t. Could you id-ndicate somewhere where this tense is described, Pease?

[alik1989]

The imperfective future tense can be formed in two ways:

• Conjugated future form of być + infinitive

• Conjugated future form of być + gendered past stem

[nlv10]

And how should i know, which way is correct? Are they interchangable?..

[alik1989]

The version with the past-stem used to be a seperate tense in Old Slavonic, called future perfect, but in modern Polish this disctinction disappeared, so there is now no difference in meaning between those two. Now it's only a question of stylistics.

I generally recommend using the past-stem version with all modal and auxilliary verbs.

[JudithStanley]

Any chance of allowing "We shall be using scissors"?

[Jellei]

Sure, why not. Added.

[Lucjanku]

We will be using a pair of scissors? As a non-native, I thought it should be 'a pair of scissors', like it is a pair of trousers?

[alik1989]

Not necessarily, but 'a pair of scissors' is fine as well, added now.

[Dan822484]

How would you say "we will use scissors"?

[Jellei]

We also accept it here as there's no simple equivalence between the tenses, but Polish Future Simple would be "Użyjemy nożyczek".

[lmpshd]

I just tried "We will use scissors" and it wasn't accepted.

[eggers7]

The same happened with me

[alik1989]

The omission of the article wasn't allowed until recently, but it has been added now.