Możesz ukryć żeton.

In Polish, the subject pronoun is often omitted because the verb already shows who the subject is.

Here, możesz means you can and already tells us the subject is you singular.

So:

• Możesz ukryć żeton. = You can hide the token.
• Ty możesz ukryć żeton. also works, but ty is usually added only for emphasis, contrast, or clarity.

For example, Ty możesz ukryć żeton, nie ja means You can hide the token, not me.

Możesz is the 2nd person singular form of the verb móc, which means to be able to / can.

A few forms of móc:

• mogę = I can
• możesz = you can
• może = he/she/it can
• możemy = we can
• możecie = you all can
• mogą = they can

So możesz is used when speaking to one person informally.

After móc (can / to be able to), Polish normally uses the other verb in the infinitive.

So the pattern is:

• możesz + infinitive

In this sentence:

• możesz = you can
• ukryć = to hide

This is similar to English you can hide.

This is a question about aspect, which is very important in Polish.

• ukryć is perfective
• ukrywać is imperfective

Very roughly:

• ukryć focuses on completing the action: hide it successfully / hide it once
• ukrywać focuses on the process, repetition, or ongoing nature: be hiding / hide repeatedly

In Możesz ukryć żeton, the perfective ukryć suggests a single complete action: You can hide the token.

If you said Możesz ukrywać żeton, it would sound more like You can be hiding the token or You can hide the token repeatedly, which is less natural in many ordinary contexts.

Here żeton is in the accusative case, because it is the direct object of the verb ukryć.

The infinitive ukryć takes a direct object, so żeton must be in the accusative.

For masculine inanimate nouns like żeton, the accusative singular is often the same as the nominative singular. So:

• nominative: żeton
• accusative: żeton

That is why the word does not change in form here.

Yes. Żeton is a masculine inanimate noun.

That matters because masculine nouns behave differently depending on whether they are animate or inanimate.

For masculine inanimate nouns:

• nominative singular often matches accusative singular

So:

• To jest żeton. = This is a token.
• Mam żeton. = I have a token.

The form stays żeton in both of those sentences.

A practical approximation is:

MOH-zhesh

More precisely:

• mo sounds like mo in more, but shorter
• ż sounds like the s in measure
• esz ends roughly like esh

So możesz sounds approximately like MO-zhesh, with stress on the first syllable:

• MO-żesz

Polish stress is usually on the second-to-last syllable, and since this word has two syllables, the stress falls on the first one.

A rough English-friendly pronunciation is:

ZHEH-ton

Breakdown:

• że = like zhe
• ton = similar to English ton, but with a clearer, shorter Polish o

Stress is on the first syllable:

• ŻE-ton

Again, ż sounds like the s in measure.

Yes, Polish word order is more flexible than English, because endings often show the grammatical roles.

The most neutral order here is:

• Możesz ukryć żeton.

But other orders are possible, depending on emphasis:

• Żeton możesz ukryć. = emphasizes the token
• Ukryć możesz żeton. = more marked or stylistic

Even though the order can change, the neutral beginner-friendly version is the original one.

Usually możesz means can in the sense of ability or possibility, but in some contexts it can also sound like you may or you’re allowed to.

So depending on context, Możesz ukryć żeton could mean:

• You can hide the token
  or
• You may hide the token

If you want to be more specifically about permission, Polish often uses context or another expression such as:

• wolno ci = you are allowed

But możesz often covers both ideas in everyday language.

The dictionary form is already ukryć, because it is an infinitive.

Its imperfective partner is ukrywać.

A useful pair to remember is:

• ukrywać = imperfective
• ukryć = perfective

This kind of aspect pair is very common in Polish verbs.

Often yes. Both can mean to hide, but they are not always identical in tone or usage.

• ukryć often sounds like conceal
• schować often sounds like put away / hide away / tuck away

In many everyday situations, Możesz schować żeton would also sound natural.

Very roughly:

• ukryć = hide so it is not found or seen
• schować = hide/put away somewhere

The exact difference depends on context, but both are common verbs learners will encounter.

It is informal singular, because możesz is used when speaking to one person in the ty form.

If you wanted to address someone formally, you would usually say:

• Może pan ukryć żeton. = to a man
• Może pani ukryć żeton. = to a woman

If speaking to more than one person informally:

• Możecie ukryć żeton. = You all can hide the token

In speech, Polish often makes yes/no questions mainly through intonation:

• Możesz ukryć żeton? = Can you hide the token?

The word order can stay exactly the same.

You can also add words for emphasis, but the simplest version is just the same sentence with question intonation and a question mark in writing.

If you want a command like Hide the token!, you would use the imperative:

• Ukryj żeton!

Here:

• ukryj = imperative of ukryć

So compare:

• Możesz ukryć żeton. = You can hide the token.
• Ukryj żeton! = Hide the token!

That is a very common distinction in Polish: modal statement versus direct command.