Proszę iść w tamtą stronę, tam jest wyjście.

Proszę iść is a polite way to tell someone what to do. It is very common in directions, announcements, and service situations.

Compare:

• Idź w tamtą stronę. = go that way.
  
  • informal, singular
• Proszę iść w tamtą stronę. = please go that way.
  
  • polite / neutral
• Niech pan/pani idzie w tamtą stronę. = please go that way.
  
  • polite, a bit more explicitly formal

So proszę iść sounds more courteous than a plain imperative.

Here proszę works like please.

Its basic verb is prosić = to ask / to request, so historically it comes from I ask. But in everyday Polish, proszę is also a standard polite word used when:

• asking someone to do something
• offering something
• inviting someone
• responding politely

In this sentence, it is not really I ask in a strong literal sense. It simply makes the instruction polite.

Because iść means to go in one specific direction, at one time.

That fits this sentence perfectly: the speaker is telling someone to go in a particular direction right now.

Compare:

• iść = to go, be going, on one occasion, in one direction
• chodzić = to go habitually / repeatedly / in different directions / on foot in general

So:

• Proszę iść w tamtą stronę = please go that way
• Chodzę do szkoły pieszo = I go to school on foot / I walk to school

Sometimes yes, but iść is the more neutral and common choice here.

Very roughly:

• iść = the process of going
• pójść = to set off / go once, with a more completed, perfective sense

In real life, you may hear both:

• Proszę iść w tamtą stronę
• Proszę pójść w tamtą stronę

But for giving directions, proszę iść is extremely natural and probably the safest version to learn first.

This is a very common Polish way to say in that direction or that way.

Literally:

• w = into / in / toward
• tamtą = that
• stronę = side / direction

So w tamtą stronę means something like toward that side/direction.

It is more specific than just tam. It often suggests that the speaker is pointing or referring to a visible direction.

Because after movement expressions like iść w..., Polish uses the accusative case here.

Base forms:

• tamta strona = that side / that direction

Accusative forms:

• tamtą stronę

So the changes are:

• tamta → tamtą
• strona → stronę

This is a normal feminine singular accusative pattern.

Because tamta is a feminine adjective/pronoun, and here it is in the accusative singular feminine form.

Pattern:

• nominative: ta / tamta strona
• accusative: tę / tamtą stronę

For an English speaker, this is worth memorizing as a set phrase:

• w tę stronę = this way
• w tamtą stronę = that way

So the -ą is just the correct case ending.

Because the two words are doing different jobs.

• w tamtą stronę = in that direction
• tam jest wyjście = the exit is there

So the first part tells you which way to go, and the second part tells you what is located there.

This repetition sounds completely natural in Polish. In fact, it helps make the instruction clearer.

Wyjście means exit, way out, or sometimes an exit point.

It comes from the verb wyjść = to go out / to exit.

In this sentence, wyjście most naturally means the exit in a building, station, office, etc.

You will also see it on signs:

• Wyjście = Exit
• Wyjście awaryjne = Emergency exit

Polish does not need a dummy subject like English there in there is.

So:

• Tam jest wyjście literally looks like There/there, is exit
• natural English meaning: The exit is there or There is an exit there

Polish simply uses jest = is and the location word tam.

This is normal Polish structure, even though it does not match English word-for-word.

Yes. That is grammatical and natural.

• Proszę iść tam. = Please go there / Please go that way.

But w tamtą stronę is a bit more directional and physical. It often sounds like the speaker is indicating a direction with a gesture.

So the difference is roughly:

• tam = there
• w tamtą stronę = in that direction / that way

Yes, Polish word order is fairly flexible.

For example, you could also say:

• Proszę iść w tamtą stronę. Tam jest wyjście.
• Tam jest wyjście, proszę iść w tamtą stronę.
• Wyjście jest tam.

But the original version is very natural because it gives the instruction first, then the explanation.

So:

• Proszę iść w tamtą stronę, tam jest wyjście.
  = first: go that way
  = then: that is where the exit is

It is polite and neutral, leaning formal.

You might hear it from:

• staff in a building
• a receptionist
• a security guard
• someone giving polite directions to a stranger

It is not stiff or unusual. It is a very normal real-life sentence.

If you were speaking to a close friend, you might simply say:

• Idź w tamtą stronę, tam jest wyjście.

But to a stranger, proszę iść is a better choice.