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Tired doctor might kill you! Why don't you understand that, polish government... :C /just my sad thoughts/
Hi, I translated this as 'You cannot work whilst tired'. 'While' and 'whilst' mean the same thing, however, 'whilst' is more commonly used in Britain than in the US.
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so how come here both work but when it's a normal sentence (like "jestem zmęczony") only one works?
Będąc is not "normal" verb, it's "imiesłów przysłówkowy czynny". See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgressive_(linguistics) And transgressives in Polish link to both nominative and instrumental cases.
Examples:
[While being interested, I was reading the story.]
Singular masculine 1st form:
Będąc zainteresowany, czytałem opowiadanie.
Będąc zainteresowanym, czytałem opowiadanie.
It is something like "będąc zainteresowanym mężczyzną" (while being interested man) and mężczyzną is omitted.
Singular feminine 1st form:
Będąc zainteresowana, czytałam opowiadanie.
Będąc zainteresowaną, czytałam opowiadanie.
And, you can say "Jestem zmęczony", but also "Jestem zmęczonym mężczyzną". And here you can't omit a noun.
