Kiedy skończymy zakupy, zrobimy sobie gorącą czekoladę.

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Breakdown of Kiedy skończymy zakupy, zrobimy sobie gorącą czekoladę.

• my: we
• gorący: hot
• skończyć: to finish

Questions & Answers about Kiedy skończymy zakupy, zrobimy sobie gorącą czekoladę.

What does skończymy mean and why is it used here?

Skończymy is the first-person plural future form of the perfective verb skończyć (to finish). In Polish, perfective verbs describe completed actions, and their future is expressed by a single word. So skończymy literally means “we will finish.”

Why isn’t the subject my (we) explicitly stated before skończymy?

Polish verbs carry person and number endings, so the pronoun my (“we”) is redundant and usually dropped. The ending -my on skończymy already tells you the subject is “we.”

Why is zakupy in the plural form here?

Zakupy is a pluralia tantum noun (it only exists in the plural) meaning “shopping” or “groceries.” Even though it looks plural, it behaves semantically like an uncountable concept.

What role does sobie play in zrobimy sobie?

Sobie is a reflexive pronoun in the dative case. With verbs like zrobić, adding sobie means “to make for oneself.” So zrobimy sobie = “we will make for ourselves.”

Why are perfective verbs (skończymy, zrobimy) used instead of imperfective ones?