Czy możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?

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.

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.

It is informal, because możesz is the ty form, used with one person you know well enough to address as ty.

You would say this to:

• a friend
• a classmate
• a sibling
• a child
• someone you are on informal terms with

A more formal version would be something like:

• Czy może Pan przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?
• Czy może Pani przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?

An even more polite version might use mógłby Pan / mogłaby Pani.

This is about aspect, which is very important in Polish.

• czytać = imperfective: to read, to be reading, to read in general
• przeczytać = perfective: to read through, to finish reading, to read completely

Here, the speaker is asking for one complete action: reading the text again from start to finish. That is why przeczytać is used.

Using czytać here would sound less natural, because the request is not about the ongoing process of reading; it is about completing the reading once more.

Not by itself.

Przeczytać means to read through / to finish reading, but it does not automatically mean out loud.

However, in real context, if you ask another person Can you read this text again?, it often implies reading aloud, because otherwise there would be no reason to ask them to do it again for you.

If you want to make out loud explicit, you can say:

• Czy możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz na głos?

Ten means this.

It points to a specific text that both speaker and listener already know about, see, or have just mentioned.

It is often natural in Polish to include ten where English might or might not use this. So Polish can sound a little more specific here.

You could also say:

• Czy możesz przeczytać tekst jeszcze raz?

That is also possible, especially if it is obvious which text you mean. But ten tekst makes the reference more definite: this text / this particular text.

Because tekst is the direct object of przeczytać, so it is in the accusative case.

But here is the key point: tekst is a masculine inanimate noun, and for many masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative singular looks the same as the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: ten tekst
• accusative: ten tekst

That is why you do not see any change.

If it were a different kind of noun, you often would see a change. For example:

• ta książka → tę książkę

Jeszcze raz means again or one more time.

Literally, it is something like still/yet once, but in normal English you should think of it as:

• again
• once more
• one more time

It is a very common Polish phrase for asking someone to repeat an action:

• Powiedz jeszcze raz. = Say it again.
• Zrób to jeszcze raz. = Do it again.

Yes. Polish word order is fairly flexible.

This sentence is natural as:

• Czy możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?

But you can also hear:

• Czy możesz jeszcze raz przeczytać ten tekst?

Both are correct. The difference is mostly about emphasis and rhythm, not basic meaning.

Very roughly:

• ...ten tekst jeszcze raz can leave again slightly later in the sentence
• ...jeszcze raz przeczytać ten tekst brings again forward a bit more

Polish allows this flexibility much more than English does.

Yes.

You can simply say:

• Możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?

In speech, this is very common. The sentence is understood as a question from intonation and context.

Adding czy can make the yes/no-question structure clearer, but it is not always required.

So both are natural:

• Czy możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?
• Możesz przeczytać ten tekst jeszcze raz?