Muszę odnaleźć dokumenty.

must

Breakdown of Muszę odnaleźć dokumenty.

• dokument: the document
• odnaleźć: to find; locate

Questions & Answers about Muszę odnaleźć dokumenty.

What does each word in Muszę odnaleźć dokumenty do grammatically?

• Muszę = I must / I have to
  This is the 1st person singular form of musieć (to have to / must).

• odnaleźć = to find / to locate / to recover
  This is an infinitive, used after muszę.

• dokumenty = documents
  This is the direct object, the thing that must be found.

So the structure is:

Muszę + infinitive + object
= I must + verb + object

Why is it muszę and not musieć?

Because musieć is the dictionary form, meaning to have to / must. In an actual sentence, you usually need a conjugated form.

Here, the subject is I, so Polish uses the 1st person singular:

• musieć = to have to
• muszę = I have to / I must

Some other forms are:

• musisz = you have to
• musi = he/she/it has to
• musimy = we have to
• musicie = you all have to
• muszą = they have to

So Muszę odnaleźć dokumenty literally means I must find the documents.