Questions & Answers about Dziś pracuję do szóstej.
What does dziś mean, and is it the same as dzisiaj?
Yes. Dziś means today, and it is basically the shorter form of dzisiaj.
Both are very common:
- Dziś pracuję do szóstej.
- Dzisiaj pracuję do szóstej.
They mean the same thing. Dziś can sound a little shorter or slightly more compact in everyday speech, but there is no big difference in meaning.
Why is it pracuję and not something like pracujesz or pracować?
Pracuję is the 1st person singular form of the verb pracować (to work), so it means I work / I am working.
Here are a few forms:
- pracuję = I work / am working
- pracujesz = you work / are working
- pracuje = he/she/it works
- pracować = to work (the infinitive)
So in Dziś pracuję do szóstej, the speaker is talking about themselves: I’m working today until six.
Why doesn’t Polish use a separate word for am here?