Czy mogłaby Pani wysłać mi mail z informacją o poziomie mojego kursu?

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Breakdown of Czy mogłaby Pani wysłać mi mail z informacją o poziomie mojego kursu?

• czy: question marker
• mi: me
• o: about

Questions & Answers about Czy mogłaby Pani wysłać mi mail z informacją o poziomie mojego kursu?

What does czy do in this sentence? Do I always need it in Polish questions?

Czy is a question particle that marks a yes/no question, a bit like starting with “Do / Does / Is / Can” in English.

• Czy mogłaby Pani wysłać…? = Could you send…? (yes/no question)
• In everyday spoken Polish, czy is often dropped: Mogłaby Pani wysłać mi mail…? – still perfectly fine.
• Using czy makes the question slightly more neutral/formal/clear, and is common in writing.

You don’t need czy in every question, but you will see it a lot in written and polite language.

Why is it mogłaby, not something like może or można?

All three come from the verb móc (can / to be able to), but they’re used differently:

• mogłaby – conditional form, feminine 3rd person singular: could (she).
  It’s used here because Pani is grammatically she (3rd-person feminine):

  • Czy mogłaby Pani…? = Could you (madam) …? (very polite, hypothetical, soft request)

• może Pani wysłać…? = Can you send…? (still polite, but a bit more direct / less soft than mogłaby)

• można wysłać…? = impersonal is it possible to send…? (much more neutral/impersonal).

So mogłaby makes it a polite, conditional request: Would you be able to / Could you….