Obróć proszę fotel w stronę okna.

Obróć is the imperative form of the verb obrócić, which means to turn / rotate / swivel.

So in this sentence, obróć means turn! or rotate! when speaking to one person.

A useful breakdown:

• obrócić = to turn something, to rotate it
• obróć = turn it! (command to one person)

This is a very common Polish command pattern.

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

• obrócić is perfective
• obracać is imperfective

Here, the speaker wants one completed action: turn the chair so it ends up facing the window. That is why Polish naturally uses the perfective imperative:

• Obróć fotel... = Turn the chair... (and finish doing it)

If you used the imperfective, it would sound more like focusing on the process, repetition, or ongoing action.

So for a simple one-time instruction, obróć is the normal choice.

Proszę here means please. It makes the command sound softer and more polite:

• Obróć fotel. = Turn the chair.
• Obróć proszę fotel. = Please turn the chair.

A very important nuance: proszę makes it more polite, but it does not make the sentence formally addressed in the Pan/Pani sense. The form obróć is still a second-person singular command, so it is normally used with ty.

If you wanted a more formal version, Polish would more naturally use something like:

• Proszę obrócić fotel w stronę okna.
• Niech pan/pani obróci fotel w stronę okna.

Because fotel is the direct object of the verb, it goes in the accusative case.

However, for many masculine inanimate nouns in Polish, the accusative singular looks exactly the same as the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: fotel
• accusative: fotel

That is why you do not see a visible ending change here.

Compare with a noun where the form does change:

• mam stół = I have a table
• widzę stół = I see a table

But with fotel, nominative and accusative singular are the same.

Literally, w stronę okna means in the direction of the window.

So the whole phrase means something like:

• turn the chair toward the window
• turn the chair to face the window

Breakdown:

• w = toward / into / in, depending on context
• stronę = side, direction
• okna = of the window

This phrase is very common when talking about orientation or movement toward something.

Examples:

• iść w stronę domu = go toward the house
• spojrzeć w stronę drzwi = look toward the door

This phrase contains two different case forms.

1. w stronę

After w stronę, the noun strona appears here as stronę, which is the accusative singular.

• nominative: strona
• accusative: stronę

2. okna

After strona/stronę, the thing you are facing or moving toward usually goes in the genitive:

• strona okna = direction/side of the window
• w stronę okna = toward the window

So:

• stronę = accusative
• okna = genitive

This is a common Polish structure: w stronę + genitive.

More or less, yes, but Polish structure does not match English exactly.

A rough word-by-word gloss is:

• Obróć = turn
• proszę = please
• fotel = armchair / chair
• w stronę = toward / in the direction of
• okna = of the window

So the natural English translation is:

• Please turn the chair toward the window.
• Please turn the armchair toward the window.

Note that fotel is often better translated as armchair rather than just chair, depending on context.

Yes, the word order can change.

Polish word order is more flexible than English, though not completely free.
All of these are possible, with slightly different emphasis or style:

• Obróć proszę fotel w stronę okna.
• Proszę, obróć fotel w stronę okna.
• Obróć fotel, proszę, w stronę okna.
• Proszę obrócić fotel w stronę okna. ← more formal / neutral instruction style

The version you were given sounds natural and conversational. Putting proszę after the verb is a common way to soften a command.

It is basically informal, because obróć is the 2nd person singular imperative, used with ty.

So this is suitable for:

• a friend
• a family member
• a child
• someone you address informally

If you want to be truly formal in Polish, you would normally say:

• Proszę obrócić fotel w stronę okna.
• Niech pan obróci fotel w stronę okna.
• Niech pani obróci fotel w stronę okna.

So proszę adds politeness, but the grammar of obróć itself still points to an informal singular addressee.

Because the meaning is not move it to the window, but turn it so it faces the window.

• w stronę okna = toward the window, in the direction of the window
• do okna = to the window

If you said przesuń fotel do okna, that would mean move the chair to the window.

But here the point is orientation, not location. The chair stays where it is, but it changes direction. That is why w stronę okna is the better phrase.

Possibly, but it is not exactly the same nuance.

• obrócić = turn / rotate
• odwrócić = turn around / reverse / turn to the other side

In many situations they may overlap, but obrócić fotel is the more straightforward choice when you mean physically rotate the chair.

Odwrócić often suggests turning something around from its current orientation, sometimes more sharply or completely.

So in this sentence, obróć sounds very natural.

A simple approximation is:

ob-rootch

A few details:

• ó sounds like u
• ć is a soft sound, something like a softened ch in English, but not exactly the same
• rz here sounds like ż because of the preceding consonant pattern in the word’s history; for learners, it is enough to know the whole word sounds roughly like ob-rooch

A more careful learner-friendly pronunciation guide:

• Obróć ≈ ob-ROOTCH
• stress is on the second-to-last syllable: o-BRÓĆ

Since it is only two syllables, the stress falls on bróć.

Not exactly.

Fotel usually means an armchair or a comfortable upholstered chair, not just any chair.

Compare:

• krzesło = chair
• fotel = armchair / lounge chair / cushioned chair

So if the object in the room is a regular dining chair, Polish would more likely use krzesło:

• Obróć proszę krzesło w stronę okna.

If it is a larger comfortable seat, fotel is the right word.