Przetłumacz to dosłownie.

It is the 2nd person singular imperative of przetłumaczyć, which means to translate in a perfective sense.

So przetłumacz means:

• translate!
• translate it! / do the translation!

It is used when speaking to one person informally.

Because Polish often distinguishes between:

• imperfective verbs: focus on the process, repetition, or ongoing action
• perfective verbs: focus on completing the action

Here:

• tłumaczyć = to be translating / to translate in general
• przetłumaczyć = to translate something completely, to produce a finished translation

So Przetłumacz to dosłownie sounds like:

• Translate this/it literally
• with an idea of give me the completed translation

Using tłumacz would sound more like translate/explain as an ongoing activity, and in many contexts it can also mean explain!

Here to means it or this, depending on context.

In this sentence it is the direct object of the verb:

• Przetłumacz = translate
• to = it / this
• dosłownie = literally

So word-for-word, the structure is roughly:

• Translate it literally

Polish to is very common and can mean different things in different contexts, but here it is simply the thing being translated.

Because to can serve as the accusative form for a neuter pronoun like this/it in this kind of sentence.

The verb przetłumaczyć takes a direct object, and to fills that role naturally.

English learners sometimes expect a different-looking object form, but to is completely normal here.

Dosłownie is an adverb. It means literally.

It describes how the translation should be done:

• Przetłumacz to dosłownie = Translate it literally

It comes from dosłowny = literal.

So:

• dosłowny = literal (adjective)
• dosłownie = literally (adverb)

No, Polish word order is fairly flexible.

Przetłumacz to dosłownie is natural and clear, but other orders are also possible, for example:

• Dosłownie to przetłumacz
• To przetłumacz dosłownie
• Przetłumacz dosłownie to

These versions can sound more marked or put emphasis in different places.

The original sentence is a very normal neutral order:

• verb first, because it is a command
• object next
• adverb after that

Yes. Przetłumacz is the command form used when speaking to one person informally.

If you wanted to be more polite or formal, you would usually say:

• Proszę przetłumaczyć to dosłownie. = Please translate it literally.

If you were speaking to more than one person, you would say:

• Przetłumaczcie to dosłownie.

So the original sentence is singular and informal.

Yes. Adverbs in Polish often have some mobility.

For example:

• Przetłumacz to dosłownie
• Dosłownie przetłumacz to
• Przetłumacz dosłownie to

But not all versions sound equally natural in all contexts. The original version is a good, standard one.

Usually, changing the position changes the focus or emphasis, not the core meaning.

Because Polish usually does not need subject pronouns when the verb form already shows who the subject is.

The form przetłumacz already tells you the subject is:

• you (singular, informal)

So adding ty is usually unnecessary unless you want emphasis:

• Ty przetłumacz to dosłownie. = You translate it literally.

That sounds contrastive or emphatic.

A rough pronunciation guide for an English speaker is:

• psheh-TWOO-match toh dos-VOHV-nyeh

A few useful details:

• rz in prze- sounds like the zh in measure
• cz in -macz sounds like ch in church, but harder and unaspirated
• ł sounds like English w
• w in dosłownie sounds like English v
• nie at the end sounds roughly like nyeh

The stress is normally on the second-to-last syllable:

• prze-tłu-MACZ
• do-SŁOW-nie

In normal speech, the whole sentence flows quite smoothly.