Po pracy wolę odpoczywać u siebie niż w biurze.

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Breakdown of Po pracy wolę odpoczywać u siebie niż w biurze.

• w: in
• biuro: the office
• niż: rather than

Questions & Answers about Po pracy wolę odpoczywać u siebie niż w biurze.

Why is it po pracy, and what case is pracy?

Po can mean after in time expressions, and in this use it normally takes the locative case.

So:

• praca = work
• po pracy = after work

The form pracy is the locative singular of praca here.
(It happens to look the same as some other case forms, but in this sentence it is locative because po requires it.)

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Why isn’t there a word for I? Where is the subject?

In Polish, subject pronouns are often omitted because the verb ending already shows who is doing the action.

Here, wolę means I prefer, so ja is unnecessary.

• (Ja) wolę = I prefer

You could say Ja wolę... if you want extra emphasis, for example to contrast with someone else, but in a neutral sentence it is usually left out.

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What is wolę? What verb does it come from?