Imiesłów przysłówkowy czynny in Polish and its Croatian Translation Equivalents

Polish and Croatian inherited some of the participles from Old Slavonic language, significantly narrowing their number simplifying forms. Their development was different, due to peculiarities each language system. One them, participium praesentis activi (Pol. imiesłów czasu teraźniejszego czynny, Cro. glagolski prilog sadašnji aktivni / particip prezenta) developed in into two separate (morphologically, syntactically semantically different) verb forms: invariable przysłówkowy współczesny with suffix –ąc variable przymiotnikowy czynny suffixes –ący for masculine gender, –ąca feminine gender –ące middle gender. While first them has its unambiguous equivalent –ći, second forces translator find other solutions. Among are various transformations at formal level aimed conveying content original text. The paper examines translation equivalents on example contemporary prose (see Literature) such a way that constructions opposed structures another semantic properties described.