Zamówię dziś zupę i sałatkę w restauracji.

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Breakdown of Zamówię dziś zupę i sałatkę w restauracji.

• i: and
• dziś: today
• restauracja: the restaurant

Questions & Answers about Zamówię dziś zupę i sałatkę w restauracji.

Why is zamówię used here instead of zamawiam?

Zamówię is the future tense of the perfective verb zamówić (“to order”). It indicates a single, completed action you will perform today. Zamawiam is present tense of the imperfective verb zamawiać, which suggests an ongoing or habitual action (“I’m ordering” or “I order regularly”), so it wouldn’t fit if you mean “I will place an order (now)”.

What exactly is a perfective verb in Polish?

Perfective verbs describe actions viewed as complete wholes, with a clear beginning and end. They don’t have a present tense form—only past and future. In this sentence, zamówię (I will order) signals that the ordering will happen and be completed today. The imperfective counterpart is zamawiam, which focuses on the process or repetition.

Why are zupę and sałatkę in the accusative case?

They are direct objects of the verb zamówię, answering “what (am I ordering)?” In Polish, direct objects of transitive verbs take the accusative case. Zupa → zupę, sałatka → sałatkę.

Why do we say w restauracji and not na restauracji?