Czy ten wykres wygląda dobrze?

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Breakdown of Czy ten wykres wygląda dobrze?

• ten: this
• wyglądać: to look
• wykres: the chart

Questions & Answers about Czy ten wykres wygląda dobrze?

What does czy do at the beginning of the sentence?

Czy turns the sentence into a yes/no question.

So:

• Ten wykres wygląda dobrze. = This chart looks good.
• Czy ten wykres wygląda dobrze? = Does this chart look good? / Does this chart look okay?

Unlike English, Polish does not need a word like does. Adding czy is one common way to clearly mark a yes/no question.

You can also ask the same question in speech without czy, just by using intonation:

• Ten wykres wygląda dobrze?

That is also natural in conversation.

Why is it ten wykres and not some other form of this?

Ten means this and it has to match the noun in gender, number, and case.

Wykres is:

• masculine
• singular
• here in the nominative case (the basic dictionary form)

So the correct form is:

• ten wykres = this chart

Compare:

• ta tabela = this table (feminine)
• to zdjęcie = this picture/photo (neuter)
• te wykresy = these charts (plural)

What exactly does wykres mean?