Czy możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?

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Breakdown of Czy możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?

• czy: question marker
• ten: this
• móc: can

Questions & Answers about Czy możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?

What does czy do at the beginning of the sentence?

Czy marks a yes/no question. It is a very common way to turn a statement into a question in Polish.

So:

• Możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz. = You can read this text again.
• Czy możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz? = Can you read this text again?

It does not really translate as a separate word here; it just signals that the whole sentence is a question.

Also, in other contexts, czy can mean whether.

What exactly is możesz?

Możesz is the 2nd person singular form of móc, which means to be able to / can.

So możesz means you can or you are able to.

In this sentence, it works like English can you...?, which is often used to make a request, not just to ask about ability.

Is this sentence informal or formal?