Word
Muszę jutro wyrzucić śmieci z kuchni.
Meaning
I must throw away the trash from the kitchen tomorrow.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Muszę jutro wyrzucić śmieci z kuchni.
kuchnia
the kitchen
musieć
to have to
jutro
tomorrow
z
from
Questions & Answers about Muszę jutro wyrzucić śmieci z kuchni.
What exactly does muszę mean here, and why is it in the present tense if the action is tomorrow?
Muszę is the first-person singular of musieć = to have to / must.
- muszę = I have to / I must
- It’s grammatically present tense, but:
- Polish often uses present tense + time expression for the future.
- jutro (tomorrow) makes it clear the obligation is about the future.
So Muszę jutro… literally is I have to tomorrow…, which corresponds to English I have to … tomorrow / I must … tomorrow. Using present tense with jutro is perfectly normal in Polish.
Why is the verb wyrzucić and not wyrzucać?
Polish has aspect: verbs come in imperfective and perfective pairs.
- wyrzucać – imperfective: to be throwing out, to throw out regularly / habitually
- wyrzucić – perfective: to throw out once, to complete the action
In this sentence, the speaker is talking about one concrete future task they must complete tomorrow. That’s why the perfective form wyrzucić is used.
If you wanted to talk about a habit, you’d use the imperfective:
- Muszę codziennie wyrzucać śmieci. – I have to take out the trash every day.