Możemy umówić się jutro po pracy.

Możemy is the 1st person plural form of móc (to be able to / can).

So:

• mogę = I can
• możesz = you can
• możemy = we can

In this sentence, możemy gives the idea of we can, we could, or sometimes we’re able to, depending on context.

Umówić się means to arrange to meet, to make an appointment, or to agree on meeting.

It is not just the physical act of meeting. It usually implies that the meeting is planned or arranged.

So compared with another common verb:

• spotkać się = to meet
• umówić się = to arrange to meet / set up a meeting

In this sentence, the focus is on making the arrangement, not only on the meeting itself.

No—here się is part of the verb expression umówić się.

Many Polish verbs use się, and in many cases you simply have to learn the verb together with it. Without się, umówić would not mean the same thing in this sentence.

So learn this as a set phrase:

• umówić się = to arrange to meet / make an appointment

A good habit is to memorize Polish verbs in the form they normally appear, including się when necessary.

Both are possible.

You can say:

• Możemy umówić się jutro po pracy.
• Możemy się umówić jutro po pracy.

Both sound natural. Polish word order is more flexible than English word order.

The version with się after the infinitive is very common, but placing się before the infinitive is also normal. In everyday speech, speakers choose the version that sounds best rhythmically or fits what they want to emphasize.

Jutro means tomorrow. It does not change form here.

It functions as an adverb of time, like English tomorrow, so there is no article and no case ending to worry about in this sentence.

Examples:

• jutro = tomorrow
• dzisiaj = today
• wczoraj = yesterday

Po pracy means after work.

The dictionary form is praca (work), but after the preposition po in this meaning, Polish uses the locative case.

So:

• praca = base form
• po pracy = after work

This is why the ending changes from -a to -y.

A useful pattern:

• po obiedzie = after lunch
• po szkole = after school
• po pracy = after work

Not always. Po has several meanings in Polish depending on context.

In this sentence, po means after:

• po pracy = after work

But in other contexts it can mean things like:

• along / on: chodzić po ulicy = to walk along the street / around the street area
• for in some expressions: iść po chleb = to go get bread

So it is a common preposition with several uses. Here, though, the meaning is simply after.

It is most naturally understood as a suggestion or proposal:

• We can arrange to meet tomorrow after work.

Depending on tone and context, it could also sound like:

• We could meet tomorrow after work.
• It’s possible for us to meet tomorrow after work.

So możemy does not always sound like pure ability. Very often, especially in conversation, it is used to make a practical suggestion.

Yes, but the tone is different.

• Możemy umówić się jutro po pracy. = We can / could arrange to meet tomorrow after work.
• Umówmy się jutro po pracy. = Let’s arrange to meet tomorrow after work.

The second version is more direct and more clearly a proposal. The original sentence is a little softer and less pushy.

After modal verbs like móc (can / be able to), Polish commonly uses an infinitive.

So the structure is:

• możemy
  • infinitive

Here:

• możemy = we can
• umówić się = arrange to meet

This is very similar to English can + verb.

Examples:

• Mogę przyjść. = I can come.
• Możemy zacząć. = We can start.
• Możemy umówić się jutro. = We can arrange to meet tomorrow.

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

• umówić się = perfective
• umawiać się = imperfective

In this sentence, umówić się is used because it refers to a single completed arrangement: setting up one meeting.

Very roughly:

• umówić się = to arrange it successfully, to fix a time
• umawiać się = to be arranging, to arrange habitually, or to talk about the process in a more general way

So Możemy umówić się jutro po pracy sounds natural because you mean we can set up one meeting for tomorrow.

Yes, quite a lot.

These are all possible, with small differences in emphasis:

• Możemy umówić się jutro po pracy.
• Jutro możemy umówić się po pracy.
• Możemy jutro umówić się po pracy.
• Po pracy możemy umówić się jutro. (grammatically possible, but less natural in most contexts)

The most neutral version is the original one.

Polish word order is flexible, but not random. Moving words usually changes emphasis rather than the basic meaning.

By default, a native speaker will usually understand it from context—often as after work for one or both of us, depending on the conversation.

Polish often leaves such things unstated when they are obvious from the situation.

If you wanted to be more specific, you could say something like:

• po mojej pracy = after my work
• po twojej pracy = after your work

But in normal conversation, po pracy is completely natural on its own.

A few useful pronunciation points:

• ó is pronounced like u
• ć is a soft ch-like sound
• się is usually pronounced roughly like shę / śe depending on speech style

Very approximate pronunciation:

• Możemy ≈ mo-ZHE-mi
• umówić się ≈ u-MOO-vich shye
• jutro ≈ YOO-tro
• po pracy ≈ po PRA-tsi

This is only approximate, but the biggest useful takeaway is:

• ó = u sound
• się is not pronounced like separate English see-eh