"We will be using scissors."
Translation:Będziemy używały nożyczek.
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Jantek_Jantek is of course correct, but let me precise one thing: it's rather not that "everybody is a woman" but "no one is a man". From the linguistic point of view, if "używały" is used it could also be dogs. Or elephants. Or any other plural noun that is not "a group of people with at least one man".
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So people have been asking the difference between feminine form and non-feminine form but why can we use używać?
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Alright, so let me try and get my head around this one:
- We will use -> użyjemy
- We will be using (for a specific incidence) -> używali/używały
- We will be using (generally) -> używać
So if I said "we will be using scissors to cut this paper", I'd use używali/używały.
and
"we will be using scissors from now on", I'd use używać.
Is this correct?
You went a bit too far. używali/używały/używać (or rather "będziemy używali/używały/używać") are perfectly interchangeable, it's just a matter of personal preference whether to use the gender-marking version (będziemy używali/używały) or the neutral one (będziemy używać).
Sometimes the context asks for one. Imagine a story that ends with a plot twist - the main character is of different gender than we thought all the time. Such a story will be very difficult to translate in Polish. Using 'używać' in the Future Tense will surely solve some problems.