Learn Hardcore Polish: My pijemy sok codziennie rano.

My is the personal pronoun we. In Polish you often drop subject pronouns because the verb ending already tells you who’s doing the action, but including My adds emphasis or clarity.

Why do we include My if pijemy already means “we drink”?

Polish verbs carry person and number in their endings, so pijemy indeed means “we drink.” Adding My stresses the subject (e.g. “we, as opposed to they”) or clears up ambiguity in longer sentences.

How is the verb pijemy formed and what does it indicate?

Pijemy is the first person plural present tense form of the infinitive pić (to drink). The full present-tense paradigm is:

ja piję
ty pijesz
on/ona/ono pije
my pijemy
wy pijecie
oni/one piją
So pijemy literally means “we drink” or “we are drinking.”

What case is sok in, and why does it look the same as the base form?

Here sok is in the accusative singular because it’s the direct object of pić. For masculine inanimate nouns like sok, the accusative form is identical to the nominative form, so it stays sok.