Czy możesz sprawdzić rozkład na dworcu, zanim pójdziemy na peron?

Czy turns the sentence into a yes/no question. It does not have a direct English equivalent in this sentence, because English usually shows the question by changing word order:

• Możesz sprawdzić... = You can check...
• Czy możesz sprawdzić...? = Can you check...?

In everyday speech, Polish speakers sometimes omit czy if the intonation already makes it clear that it is a question, but using czy is very normal and clear.

After móc (can / to be able to), Polish normally uses an infinitive:

• możesz sprawdzić = you can check
• mogę zobaczyć = I can see / have a look
• możemy iść = we can go

So możesz is the conjugated verb (you can) and sprawdzić stays in the infinitive (to check).

Polish usually leaves out subject pronouns when they are obvious from the verb ending.

Here the endings already tell you the subject:

• możesz = you (singular, informal)
• pójdziemy = we

So:

• Czy możesz... already means Can you...
• zanim pójdziemy... already means before we go...

You can add ty or my for emphasis, but normally you do not need them.

Możesz is informal singular — used with one person you address as ty.

So this sentence is something you would say to:

• a friend
• a family member
• a child
• a close colleague

For a formal version, you would say something like:

• Czy może Pan sprawdzić rozkład...? (to a man)
• Czy może Pani sprawdzić rozkład...? (to a woman)

Or a softer, more polite version:

• Czy mógłby Pan / mogłaby Pani sprawdzić rozkład...?

Yes. In this context, rozkład is short for rozkład jazdy, which means timetable / schedule.

At a station, if someone says sprawdzić rozkład, people will naturally understand it as:

• the train timetable
• the bus timetable
• the departure schedule

On its own, rozkład can also mean other things in other contexts, like layout or distribution, but here the station context makes timetable the obvious meaning.

Because after na meaning at/on a location, Polish uses the locative case.

The basic form is:

• dworzec = station

But after na for location, it becomes:

• na dworcu = at the station

This is a very common pattern:

• na lotnisku = at the airport
• na uniwersytecie = at the university
• na peronie = on the platform

So dworcu is simply the locative form of dworzec.

Because with some places, Polish idiomatically uses na instead of w.

For dworzec, the normal expression is:

• na dworcu = at the station

This is something you mostly just learn as standard usage. It is similar to how English uses certain prepositions in fixed ways.

A helpful contrast:

• na dworcu = at the station
• do dworca = to the station
• z dworca = from the station

If you specifically want to say inside the station building, you might say something more explicit, like w budynku dworca.

Because Polish changes the case after na depending on whether you mean movement or location.

Here:

• na peron = onto/to the platform → movement
• na peronie = on the platform → location

In the sentence, the idea is before we go to the platform, so movement is involved, which is why Polish uses na + accusative:

• pójdziemy na peron

Compare:

• Czekamy na peronie. = We are waiting on the platform.
• Idziemy na peron. = We are going to the platform.

Because peron is a masculine inanimate noun, and in the accusative singular it usually looks the same as the basic dictionary form.

So:

• peron = nominative
• na peron = accusative

That is normal for many masculine inanimate nouns:

• stół → na stół
• rynek → na rynek
• peron → na peron

So even though the case changes, the word form often does not.

Pójdziemy comes from pójść, a perfective verb, and here it means we will go.

This is very typical in Polish: a perfective verb can have a form that looks present, but actually refers to the future.

So:

• idziemy = we are going / we go (imperfective)
• pójdziemy = we will go (perfective)

In this sentence, zanim pójdziemy na peron means before we go to the platform. It refers to one completed future action, so pójdziemy is a natural choice.

Zanim means before.

It introduces a subordinate clause:

• zanim pójdziemy na peron = before we go to the platform

In Polish, subordinate clauses are normally separated by a comma, so the comma before zanim is required here:

• Czy możesz sprawdzić rozkład na dworcu, zanim pójdziemy na peron?

This is standard Polish punctuation.

Yes, Polish word order is fairly flexible, although some versions sound more natural than others.

The original sentence is very natural:

• Czy możesz sprawdzić rozkład na dworcu, zanim pójdziemy na peron?

You could also say:

• Czy możesz na dworcu sprawdzić rozkład, zanim pójdziemy na peron?

But that sounds slightly different in emphasis, with more focus on at the station.

So the original order is a good neutral model to learn. Polish often moves words around for emphasis, but not every order sounds equally natural.