"My acquaintance repairs watches."
Translation:Mój znajomy naprawia zegarki.
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What is the difference between naprawiać and naprawić? Mój znajomy naprawi zegarki/Mój znajomy naprawia zegarki?
Naprawić is perfective, whereas naprawiać is imperfective. So, since you've used the non-past stem in your examples, your first sentence is future tense, whereas the second one is present tense.
| perfective | imperfective | |
|---|---|---|
| past stem | past tense | past tense |
| non-past stem | future tense | present tense |
No, the plural is "znajomi". Or "znajome" for female-only acquaintances.
"mój" doesn't say anything about your gender. It has to match the gender of the noun it refers to, which is "znajomy". Both a man and a woman can say this sentence and it won't change anything.
Things that can change depending on whether the person speaking is a man or a woman:
Sentences like "I am tall" - the adjective has to match the subject's gender, and the subject is "I". So "Jestem wysoki" (for a man) / "Jestem wysoka" (for a woman).
Sentences like "I went to the store" - in Past Tense, the verbs are always gendered. So "Poszedłem do sklepu" (for a man) / "Poszłam do sklepu" (for a woman).
Sentences like "In the afternoon I will be reading a book" in Future Compound can be gendered but do not have to. A man could say "Po południu będę czytał książkę", a woman could say "Po południu będę czytała książkę", and they both could use the infinitive form and say "będę czytać".