"Co osiągnąłeś w swoim życiu?"

Translation: What have you achieved in your life?

[plastoquinone]

Is this perfective or imperfective?

[Jellei]

Perfective. Imperfective would be "osiągałeś", but it wouldn't make much sense in this sentence.

[sirwootalot]

I forgot to report - this sentence has an error, it should say "Co osiągnąłeś w swoim życiu, Pan Lebowski?" ;)

[mihxal]

But this sentence is incorrect. It should be "Co osiągnąłeś w swoim życiu, Panie Lebowski?" or more polite "Co Pan osiągnął w swoim życiu, Panie Lebowski?".

[sirwootalot]

Thanks for clarifying! I'm still learning for sure... I just really like that movie!

[Walkinthedog]

I believe what did you accomplish should fit the bill

[WarsawWill]

"accomplish" yes, but not "did", I think. This suggests that your life is over and you're on your deathbed, or at the Pearly Gates.

[BenYoung84]

But why would that be a problem?

[Jellei]

Yes, this should have worked already.

[GrzegorzLi19]

"what did you reach in your life" Shouldn't it be accepted?

[Jellei]

It would be like "czego dosięgnąłeś".

[GrzegorzLi19]

But sentence: "I finally reached success" is correct and means " W końcu osiągnąłem sukces." Reach doesn't means only "sięgać" in physical sens.

[Jellei]

OK, I asked a native and: 1. you're right, generally, but 2. apparently, this wouldn't seem very natural in this sentence.

[WarsawWill]

Of course "reach" can be in a used non-physical meaning, "to reach agreement", for example. And "reach success" does seem to exist, but sounds a bit strange to me, and I would suggest that the natural collocation would be "achieve".

But if you asked a native speaker "What have you reached in your life?", I think the most likely answer would be, "Sorry, what do you mean? I don't follow you"

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=reach+success%2Cachieve+success%2Creached+success%2Cachieved+success

[WarsawWill]

Or perhaps:
"What have you reached in life?"
"The grand old age of forty"

[Walkinthedog]

What have you accomplished in your life is questioning what goals have you reached up to this point in your existence. There is no implication that you have reached the end of your string, a little colloqialism tossed in for relief. thrown in to demonstrate the point.

[MacIomhair]

Although not literally the same, 'with your life' sounds better than 'in your life'

[Jellei]

I understand 'done with your life', but... 'achieved with your life'?

[MacIomhair]

Could just be the religious nature of the upbringing I had, all the sentences where 'with' is better are things like "what have you achieved with these tools?", we were brought up considering life as a tool towards the eternal. Even though the religious thought behind it fades, the language influence will still be there. Could be too niche to add?

[Jellei]

Fair enough, added now.

[MacIomhair]

Thanks.

[Walkinthedog]

How about accomplished, tried and not accepted.

[Jellei]

"accomplished" should have been accepted.

[Walkinthedog]

Achieved?

[Jellei]

That's the main answer.

[Walkinthedog]

I used achieved and it was rejected, accomplished was all it would accept.

[J_Rzesiewicz]

Nic