Breakdown of Po dostawie kurier wyjedzie szybko, żeby zdążyć na kolejny tramwaj.
szybko
quickly
na
for
żeby
in order to
zdążyć
to make it
Questions & Answers about Po dostawie kurier wyjedzie szybko, żeby zdążyć na kolejny tramwaj.
What does Po dostawie mean and why is dostawie in the Locative case?
Po means “after,” and it always governs the Locative. The noun dostawa (“delivery”) takes the Locative form dostawie, so Po dostawie translates as “after the delivery.”
The word kurier appears without an article. How do I know if it means “the courier” or “a courier”?
Polish has no articles (no “a” or “the”), so kurier can be either. Context tells you which. In this sentence it’s a specific courier, so in English we translate it as “the courier.”
Why is wyjedzie used here instead of wyjeżdża or wyjechał?
Wyjedzie is the 3rd person singular future tense of the perfective verb wyjechać (“to depart”). It implies a single, completed action in the future: “he will depart.”
- Wyjeżdża (imperfective) would suggest an ongoing or habitual action.
- Wyjechał is the past tense.
What role does szybko play, and can I move it elsewhere in the sentence?