Questions & Answers about Mam dwa bilety na autobus.
mam is the first person singular present tense form of the verb mieć (to have). The basic conjugation is:
• ja mam (I have)
• ty masz (you have)
• on/ona ma (he/she has)
Here, mam indicates that I have something (two tickets).
No. dwoje is used with:
• mixed-gender groups
• certain collective or animate nouns (e.g. children, people)
bilet is masculine inanimate, so you must use dwa bilety, not dwoje biletów.
Word order in Polish is quite flexible. While the neutral order is Subject–Verb–Object (SVO), you can move elements for emphasis:
• Na autobus mam dwa bilety (focus on “for the bus”)
• Dwa bilety mam na autobus (focus on the number)
All these variants are grammatically correct; only the emphasis shifts.
Polish generally stresses the penultimate syllable of words. Thus:
• bilety → bi-LE-ty
• autobus → au-TO-bus
Monosyllabic words (mam, dwa, na) are stressed on their only syllable.
In negative sentences, Polish uses the genitive case after numbers. So you would say:
Nie mam dwóch biletów na autobus.
Note the changes:
• nie (negation) before mam
• dwóch is the genitive form of dwa
• biletów is genitive plural of bilet