Gdzieś tutaj jest salon optyczny.

They work together, but they do different jobs:

• gdzieś = somewhere
• tutaj = here / around here

So Gdzieś tutaj means somewhere around here. It suggests the speaker knows the general area, but not the exact spot.

Compare:

• Tutaj jest salon optyczny. = The optician’s is here. / There is an optician’s here.
• Gdzieś tutaj jest salon optyczny. = There’s an optician’s somewhere around here.

So gdzieś adds vagueness or uncertainty.

Jest is the 3rd person singular present form of być = to be.

Here it works like English there is:

• jest salon optyczny = there is an optical shop / optician’s

Polish does not need a separate word like English there in this kind of sentence. The idea of existence is carried by jest.

Because salon optyczny is singular.

• salon = singular noun
• optyczny agrees with it in gender, number, and case

If the subject were plural, you would use są instead:

• Gdzieś tutaj są sklepy. = There are shops somewhere around here.

So:

• singular → jest
• plural → są

It is in the nominative singular.

Why? Because it is the thing that exists in the sentence:

• salon — masculine singular nominative
• optyczny — adjective matching salon in masculine singular nominative

Also:

• gdzieś and tutaj are adverbs, so they do not change for case.

This is a very common learner question, because Polish adjectives often come before nouns. But in Polish, adjectives can also come after nouns, especially in fixed expressions, classifications, and names of institutions or types of businesses.

Salon optyczny is the normal established phrase for an optical shop / optician’s shop.

Post-position here sounds natural because it labels the kind of place:

• salon optyczny
• gabinet dentystyczny
• sklep spożywczy

If you said optyczny salon, it would sound unusual in this context.

No. In this sentence, salon means something like showroom, shop, or salon/business premises.

So salon optyczny means an optical shop, optician’s, or optician’s shop.

This is one of those words whose meaning depends strongly on context. In other contexts, salon can indeed mean living room.

Yes. Polish word order is flexible, and changing it usually changes emphasis rather than basic meaning.

Possible versions include:

• Gdzieś tutaj jest salon optyczny.
• Jest gdzieś tutaj salon optyczny.
• Salon optyczny jest gdzieś tutaj.

The version you were given puts the location first, which sounds natural if the speaker is thinking about the area: somewhere around here...

Very roughly:

• Gdzieś tutaj jest salon optyczny. → emphasis on vague location
• Jest gdzieś tutaj salon optyczny. → neutral there is
• Salon optyczny jest gdzieś tutaj. → emphasis on the optical shop

They both mean here.

• tu is shorter and very common in everyday speech
• tutaj is also very common, and can sound a bit fuller or slightly more explicit

So you could also say:

• Gdzieś tu jest salon optyczny.

That would sound perfectly natural too.

Normally, in this sentence, no.

Polish sometimes omits forms of to be in certain sentence types, especially in informal speech or in sentences like To mój brat. But in an existential sentence like this one, jest is normally kept:

• Gdzieś tutaj jest salon optyczny. ✅

Without jest, it sounds incomplete or like very broken note-style speech:

• Gdzieś tutaj salon optyczny. ⚠️

So for normal spoken and written Polish, keep jest.

Yes, it is natural. A Polish speaker could definitely say it.

Other natural alternatives might be:

• Gdzieś tu jest salon optyczny.
• Tu gdzieś jest salon optyczny.
• Jest tu gdzieś salon optyczny.

These all mean roughly the same thing, with small differences in rhythm and emphasis.

A rough English-friendly approximation is something like g-jyesh, but not exactly.

More accurately:

• gdzieś → [ɡd͡ʑeɕ]

A few useful notes:

• gdzie- is similar to gje- with a soft sound
• final -ś is a soft sh-like sound

The full sentence is approximately:

• Gdzieś tutaj jest salon optyczny.
• [ɡd͡ʑeɕ ˈtutaj jɛst ˈsalɔn ɔpˈtɨt͡ʂnɨ]

Optyczny is an adjective meaning optical.

It agrees with salon:

• salon — masculine singular
• optyczny — masculine singular form of the adjective

If the noun changed, the adjective would change too. For example:

• sklep optyczny — masculine singular
• firma optyczna — feminine singular
• centrum optyczne — neuter singular

So the ending of the adjective depends on the noun it describes.

Yes, often.

In everyday speech, optyk can refer to:

• the optician as a person, or
• the optician’s shop, depending on context

For example:

• Muszę iść do optyka. = I need to go to the optician’s / to the optician.

But salon optyczny is a more explicit phrase for the actual shop or business location. So both are useful, but they are not identical in nuance.