Czy ten dokument jest jeszcze potrzebny?

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Breakdown of Czy ten dokument jest jeszcze potrzebny?

• czy: question marker
• ten: this
• jeszcze: still

Questions & Answers about Czy ten dokument jest jeszcze potrzebny?

Why does the sentence start with czy?

Czy is a very common way to introduce a yes/no question in Polish.

So:

• Czy ten dokument jest jeszcze potrzebny? = Is this document still needed?

It does not mean what, why, or if in this sentence. Its job here is simply to mark the sentence as a question.

A yes/no question in Polish can also sometimes be asked without czy, especially in speech, just with rising intonation:

• Ten dokument jest jeszcze potrzebny?

That is also possible, but czy makes the question sound clear and neutral.

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Does czy have to be translated into English?

Usually, no. English often does not need a separate word for it.

For example:

• Czy ten dokument jest jeszcze potrzebny? → Is this document still needed?

There is no single English word there corresponding directly to czy.

In other contexts, czy can also mean whether:

• Nie wiem, czy jest potrzebny. = I don’t know whether it is needed.

So the meaning of czy depends on the structure.

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Why is it ten dokument, not to dokument?