"Kiedy zaczęłaś pracę?"

Translation: When did you start work?

[Tom873317]

Is ęł pronounced the same as eł?

[immery]

I don't know the rules, but I think you can. I think is is like with final ę where some Poles pronounce final ę and some don't.

[Jellei]

I "suffer" from hypercorrection of speech, I do pronounce ą and ę too clearly in many people's opinion, but even I wouldn't go with zaczełłam or zaczołłem. That would sound ridiculous.

[immery]

I meant ę not eł. of course zaczełłam sounds silly, but you can say zaczęłam a bit more nasally than poseł. But also you can say both the same. And I have no idea which one is supposed to be "the more correct" one.

But of course I guess non native speakers would probably be better with just eł

[Jellei]

That I can agree with.

[Jellei]

Yes, it would be too much to try to pronounce ęł.

[JanLania]

So pracę is a noun here?

[Jellei]

Yes, "praca" = "job", "work" as a noun.

[Ten_Pies_I_Brew]

In that case, it probably shouldn't suggest "When did you start working", right? Currently it does suggest that.

[jwkrasow]

As someone else suggested, "when did you begin working" shouldn't be a suggested translation unless pracę is also the gerund, although even if it is we haven't covered those yet. There's not really a report option for this though

[Jellei]

OK, the only starred answer now will be "When did you start work?" for 'grammar closeness' reasons, although "working" is definitely a valid answer here, despite "pracę" being a noun.

[WquDT]

When did you start your job?

[Jellei]

Makes perfect sense, added.

[JanKLinde]

If "start work" and "start your job" are both accepted, why not "start your work"?

[Jellei]

Hmmm... in what context would you use that exact phrase?

[JanKLinde]

Well, I don't see any difference in meaning between "start work" and "start your work" here...

[alik1989]

It probably wouldn't hurt accepting it. Added now.

[Mark962635]

So, in one of the previous sentences "czy wzięłaś portfele?" was translated as "have you taken YOUR wallet?". Why is here "when did you start YOUR work?" is wrong?

[alik1989]

I believe that without context, this sentence just means start a job, and not some specific work on somehting (painting etc.).

[OldManSteve]

Why is it not when do you start work how is it past tense

[alik1989]

Erm... because the event this question refers to is in the past?

[DorotaJarosz]

Because zaczęłaś is in the past tense and when do you start work? (present tense) would be "Kiedy zaczynasz pracę?*

[Lolo-U]

when did you start to work?

[Jellei]

OK, added.

[joshmcguir11]

When do you start work not accepted?

[Jellei]

Wrong tense. The Polish sentence is in the Past Tense.

[Shmeh88]

Русскоязычные, а как будет "когда началась работа?"

[alik1989]

"Kiedy zaczęła się praca?"

[Maria961378]

Dlaczego nie może być tlumaczenie why you started work, skoro to jest tłumaczenie angielskie

[Jellei]

Obawiam się, że "Why you started work?" nie jest poprawnym szykiem pytania w języku angielskim. Pytanie zadaje się poprzez dodanie czasownika pomocniczego (w tym przypadku "did"), a ponieważ to "did" już pokazuje, że mówimy o czasie przeszłym, nie zaznaczamy tego czasu przeszłego w słowie "start".

Do tego w naszym zdaniu jest 'kiedy', a nie 'dlaczego'.

[AbhijeetSi8693]

When did you begin work ?

[Jellei]

Seems like an oversight. Added now.