Na wydruku widzę moje imię i adres, ale nie ma nazwiska.

Polish does not have articles, so there is no direct equivalent of English a/an or the.

That means forms like:

• na wydruku can mean on the printout or on a printout
• nazwiska can mean of the surname in context

Polish usually shows definiteness through context, word order, or extra words such as ten (this/the) when needed.

Because na here means on, and it is used with the locative case when you are talking about a location.

The base noun is wydruk = printout / printed copy.

Its locative singular form is wydruku.

So:

• wydruk → basic form
• na wydruku → on the printout

This is a very common pattern:

• na zdjęciu = on the photo
• na ekranie = on the screen
• na liście = on the list

Wydruk means printout, printed copy, or sometimes the printed version of something.

In this sentence, na wydruku suggests that the speaker is looking at a printed page or printed document and checking what information appears on it.

So it is not the act of printing, but the physical or visible printed result.

Because Polish often leaves out subject pronouns when they are obvious from the verb ending.

Widzę already means I see, because the ending -ę marks 1st person singular.

So:

• widzę = I see
• ja widzę = I see, with extra emphasis

Using ja is possible, but it usually adds contrast or emphasis, for example:

• Ja widzę moje imię, ale ty nie.
  I can see my name, but you cannot.

In a neutral sentence, just widzę is more natural.

Because moje must agree with the gender of imię.

The noun imię (first name / given name) is neuter, so the possessive adjective mój changes to the neuter form:

• masculine: mój
• feminine: moja
• neuter: moje

So:

• mój adres = my address
• moja książka = my book
• moje imię = my first name

Even though imię refers to a person’s name, grammatically it is a neuter noun.

Good question. Strictly speaking, if you say the possessive with both nouns, you would get:

• moje imię i mój adres

That is completely correct.

But in natural Polish, the possessive is often mentioned only once if the meaning is clear. So:

• moje imię i adres

is understood as:

• moje imię i mój adres

In other words, moje directly agrees with imię, and the possessive idea is simply understood again with adres.

This kind of omission is very common and natural.

Because widzieć (to see) takes the accusative case, but for these two nouns the accusative looks the same as the nominative.

So grammatically they are objects, but the forms happen to stay unchanged:

• imię → accusative singular imię
• adres → accusative singular adres

This is especially common with:

• neuter nouns like imię
• masculine inanimate nouns like adres

Compare that with a masculine animate noun, where you can clearly see the accusative change:

• Widzę brat ❌
• Widzę brata ✅
  = I see my brother

So the case is there; it just is not visibly different in these two words.

In Polish:

• imię = first name / given name
• nazwisko = surname / last name / family name

So if someone says:

• imię i nazwisko

that means:

• full name
• literally first name and surname

This is a very important distinction, because English name can sometimes mean either a full name or just a first name depending on context, while Polish usually separates them more clearly.

Because nie ma requires the genitive case.

The base form is:

• nazwisko = surname

But after nie ma, it becomes:

• nazwiska = of a/the surname

So:

• nie ma nazwiska = there is no surname / the surname is missing

This is a very common Polish structure. After nie ma, the thing that is absent usually appears in the genitive:

• nie ma czasu = there is no time
• nie ma problemu = there is no problem
• nie ma adresu = there is no address

So nazwiska is not random; it is exactly the form Polish expects here.

Not really in the usual possessive sense.

Yes, mieć means to have, and nie ma can literally mean does not have in some contexts. But in sentences like this, nie ma works more like an expression of absence:

• ale nie ma nazwiska = but there is no surname / but the surname is missing

There is no explicit subject like it in English. Polish simply uses this structure very naturally to say that something is not present.

So the idea is not really it doesn’t have a surname, but rather the surname is not there.

Because widzieć is the normal verb for seeing as a state or ongoing perception.

• widzę = I see / I can see

This fits the situation: the speaker is looking at the printout and describing what is visible on it now.

By contrast:

• zobaczyć is usually perfective and means to catch sight of, to notice, or to see once
• zobaczyłem = I saw / I noticed
• zobaczę = I will see

So in this sentence, widzę is the natural choice because the speaker is describing current visible content, not a single completed act of noticing.

Yes. Polish word order is fairly flexible, and changing it usually changes the emphasis rather than the core meaning.

The original sentence:

• Na wydruku widzę moje imię i adres, ale nie ma nazwiska.

puts na wydruku near the front, which highlights where the speaker sees this information.

Other possible versions include:

• Widzę na wydruku moje imię i adres, ale nie ma nazwiska.
• Na wydruku jest moje imię i adres, ale nazwiska nie ma.

These all mean roughly the same thing, but the focus shifts slightly.

The original sounds very natural and balanced: first it says what is visible, then it contrasts that with what is missing.