Kurier ma pięćdziesiąt przesyłek.

• kurier = courier
• ma = has
• pięćdziesiąt = fifty
• przesyłek = shipments / parcels / deliveries in the form required after this number

So the sentence is literally Courier has fifty shipments.

Mieć is the infinitive, meaning to have.

Ma is the 3rd person singular present-tense form:

• ja mam = I have
• ty masz = you have
• on / ona / ono ma = he / she / it has

Since kurier is he grammatically, Polish uses ma.

This is one of the most important grammar points in the sentence.

After numbers like pięć (five) and higher, Polish usually puts the counted noun in the genitive plural.

So:

• singular: przesyłka = one shipment
• nominative plural: przesyłki = shipments
• genitive plural: przesyłek

Because pięćdziesiąt is fifty, you get:

• pięćdziesiąt przesyłek

not pięćdziesiąt przesyłki.

Yes. In Polish, numbers 5 and above generally require the noun to be in the genitive plural.

Examples:

• pięć przesyłek = five shipments
• sześć przesyłek = six shipments
• dziesięć przesyłek = ten shipments
• pięćdziesiąt przesyłek = fifty shipments

This is different from numbers like 2, 3, 4, which usually take a different form:

• dwie przesyłki
• trzy przesyłki
• cztery przesyłki

So learners often need to remember the split:

• 2–4 → usually nominative plural
• 5+ → usually genitive plural

Yes. Pięćdziesiąt literally comes from the idea of five tens.

• pięć = five
• dziesiąt is related to tens

So pięćdziesiąt = fifty.

This pattern is useful for other numbers too:

• trzydzieści = thirty
• czterdzieści = forty
• pięćdziesiąt = fifty
• sześćdziesiąt = sixty

You do not usually separate pięćdziesiąt into two words in modern Polish; it is written as one word.

Kurier is a masculine noun.

That matters because the verb form agrees with a 3rd person singular subject, but in the present tense ma is the same for he, she, and it:

• kurier ma
• kobieta ma
• dziecko ma

So gender is part of the noun’s grammar, but in this particular sentence it does not change the verb form.

Yes. In normal writing, especially practical or business-style writing, 50 is perfectly natural:

• Kurier ma 50 przesyłek.

Writing it out as pięćdziesiąt is also correct and may appear in textbooks, careful writing, or when practicing language.

Polish does not have articles like English a / an / the.

So kurier can mean:

• a courier
• the courier

The exact meaning depends on context.

That is why Kurier ma pięćdziesiąt przesyłek can mean either:

• A courier has fifty shipments or
• The courier has fifty shipments

Yes. Polish word order is more flexible than English because grammatical endings carry a lot of information.

The neutral, straightforward order here is:

• Kurier ma pięćdziesiąt przesyłek.

But other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Pięćdziesiąt przesyłek ma kurier.
• Ma kurier pięćdziesiąt przesyłek. (less neutral, more marked)

These alternatives may sound literary, emphatic, or context-dependent. For learners, the original version is the safest and most natural.

A helpful approximate pronunciation is:

pshe-SI-wek

A few notes:

• prz sounds roughly like English psh or pszh
• sy here sounds closer to a soft shi/si than a plain English s
• ł is pronounced like English w
• stress is on the second-to-last syllable: prze-SY-łek

So the stress falls on sy.

A rough English-friendly pronunciation:

KOO-ryer ma pyench-DJYE-shont pshe-SI-wek

Very approximate breakdown:

• Kurier ≈ KOO-ryer
• ma ≈ mah
• pięćdziesiąt ≈ pyench-DJYE-shont
• przesyłek ≈ pshe-SI-wek

As usual in Polish, the main stress normally falls on the second-to-last syllable of each word:

• KU-rier
• ma
• pięć-DZIE-siąt
• prze-SY-łek

In Polish, the normal way to say someone has something is with the verb mieć = to have.

So:

• Kurier ma przesyłki = The courier has shipments

This works very much like English have/has.

Polish can also express possession in other ways in special contexts, but for ordinary statements like this one, mieć is the standard choice.

Not exactly. Przesyłka is a broader logistics/postal word. Depending on context, it can mean:

• shipment
• parcel
• package
• consignment

In a courier context, English translations like parcel or shipment are often the most natural. The best translation depends on the situation.

The number changes the noun form:

• Kurier ma jedną przesyłkę. = The courier has one shipment.
• Kurier ma dwie przesyłki. = The courier has two shipments.
• Kurier ma trzy przesyłki. = The courier has three shipments.
• Kurier ma cztery przesyłki. = The courier has four shipments.
• Kurier ma pięć przesyłek. = The courier has five shipments.

So the noun changes depending on the number:

• 1 → singular
• 2–4 → usually nominative plural
• 5+ → genitive plural

Grammatically, it is present tense:

• Kurier ma pięćdziesiąt przesyłek. = The courier has fifty shipments.

Unlike English, Polish present tense does not normally double as a future here. If you want the future, you would usually say something different, for example with context or a future construction:

• Kurier będzie miał pięćdziesiąt przesyłek. = The courier will have fifty shipments.

So the original sentence is understood as present time unless context suggests otherwise.