Learn Hardcore Polish: Każdy tydzień wygląda lepiej, kiedy mamy ciekawy plan. - Each week looks better when we have an interesting plan.

• Każdy means every.
• Tydzień (week) is in the nominative case because it’s the subject of the sentence (“every week looks…”).
• As a subject, tydzień stays in nominative, and każdy agrees with it in gender (masculine), number (singular), and case (nominative).

How do you conjugate wyglądać and why is wygląda used here?

• Wyglądać = to look (as in “to appear”).
• Present-tense conjugation (3rd person singular) is wygląda (he/she/it looks).

ja wyglądam
ty wyglądasz
on/ona/ono wygląda
• Here wygląda matches każdy tydzień (3rd person singular, neuter/masculine inanimate).

Why is lepiej used instead of dobrze?

• Dobrze means well.
• Lepiej is the comparative form meaning better.
• Because the sentence says “looks better,” you need the comparative (lepiej), not the positive (dobrze).

Why is there a comma before kiedy?

In Polish, you place a comma before a subordinate clause introduced by conjunctions like kiedy, gdy, że, ponieważ, etc.
Here kiedy mamy ciekawy plan is a dependent clause explaining when the week looks better, so we separate it with a comma.

What’s the difference between kiedy, gdy, and jak when they all can mean “when”?

• Kiedy – the most general “when,” works for past, present, future.
• Gdy – often interchangeable with kiedy, but slightly more formal/literary, used more in written or past contexts.
• Jak – colloquial “when,” common in spoken Polish.
In this sentence kiedy is perfectly neutral.

Why is mamy the correct form of mieć here?

• Mieć = to have.
• Present tense, 1st person plural:

ja mam
ty masz
on/ona ma
my mamy
wy macie
oni mają
• We use mamy because the implied subject is “we” (we have an interesting plan).

Why does ciekawy plan stay in the same form as the nominative? Isn’t it an object after mamy?

• Yes, plan is a direct object of mieć, so it’s in the accusative case.
• But for masculine inanimate nouns like plan, the accusative is identical to the nominative: plan.
• Similarly, the adjective ciekawy (masculine singular nom-acc) stays ciekawy.

Could you swap the clauses? For example, put the kiedy… part first?

Yes. You can say:
Kiedy mamy ciekawy plan, każdy tydzień wygląda lepiej.
• Polish allows flexible word order.
• Placing the subordinate clause first still requires a comma.
• The emphasis shifts slightly to “when we have an interesting plan…” but the meaning remains the same.