Odliczanie jeszcze trwa, więc skreślę jedną odpowiedź.

Odliczanie is a noun meaning countdown or counting down.

It comes from the verb odliczać / odliczyć, which relates to counting off or counting down. In this sentence, odliczanie is treated as a thing or process:

• Odliczanie trwa = The countdown is ongoing / the countdown continues

So even though English might use either the countdown or counting down, Polish uses the noun odliczanie very naturally here.

Here jeszcze means still.

So:

• Odliczanie jeszcze trwa = The countdown is still going on

This is a very common use of jeszcze:

• Jeszcze czekam = I’m still waiting
• Jeszcze nie wiem = I still don’t know / I don’t know yet

Be careful: jeszcze can mean both still and yet, depending on context.

Trwa is the 3rd person singular present form of trwać, meaning to last, to continue, or to be ongoing.

The subject is odliczanie, which is grammatically singular and neuter, so Polish uses the 3rd person singular verb form:

• odliczanie trwa = the countdown lasts / continues

You do not need a separate word for it in Polish here. The verb form already matches the subject.

Polish very often leaves subject pronouns out when they are clear from the verb form or context.

So instead of saying:

• Ja skreślę... = I will cross out...

Polish usually just says:

• Skreślę...

because skreślę already means I will cross out.

Likewise, Polish does not need a separate it in Odliczanie trwa, because odliczanie itself is the subject.

This is normal and natural in Polish.

Więc means so, therefore, or thus.

It connects the two parts of the sentence:

• Odliczanie jeszcze trwa, więc skreślę jedną odpowiedź.
• The countdown is still going on, so I’ll cross out one answer.

It shows a result or conclusion. The speaker is using the fact that time is still running as the reason for the next action.

Also, the comma before więc is normal in Polish.

Skreślę is the 1st person singular future form of the perfective verb skreślić.

That is why it means:

• I will cross out
• I’ll eliminate

Polish aspect matters here:

• skreślać = imperfective, focusing on the process / repeated action
• skreślić = perfective, focusing on a completed single action

Because the speaker means a single completed action in the future, skreślę is the natural choice.

Compare:

• Skreślam odpowiedź. = I am crossing out an answer / I cross out answers
• Skreślę odpowiedź. = I will cross out an answer

A useful thing to remember: perfective verbs in Polish do not have a present-tense meaning; their present-looking forms usually refer to the future.

Because skreślić takes a direct object, and direct objects are usually in the accusative case.

So:

• jedna odpowiedź = nominative, one answer
• jedną odpowiedź = accusative, one answer as the object of the verb

The numeral/adjective jedna changes to jedną in the accusative feminine singular.

The noun odpowiedź stays the same in form here:

• nominative: odpowiedź
• accusative: odpowiedź

So only jedna visibly changes.

Because some feminine nouns in Polish have the same form in the nominative and accusative singular.

That is what happens with odpowiedź:

• nominative: odpowiedź
• accusative: odpowiedź

But the word modifying it does show the case change:

• jedna odpowiedź → nominative
• jedną odpowiedź → accusative

This is very common in Polish: sometimes the noun form does not visibly change, but another word in the phrase makes the case clear.

It can mean both, depending on context.

Literally, skreślić means to cross out or to strike out. But in contexts like tests, puzzles, guessing games, or multiple-choice situations, it can also mean to eliminate an option.

So skreślę jedną odpowiedź could suggest:

• physically crossing one answer out on paper, or
• deciding that one answer is no longer possible

Both are very natural readings.

Yes. Polish word order is fairly flexible, though different orders can change emphasis.

The original sentence is natural:

• Odliczanie jeszcze trwa, więc skreślę jedną odpowiedź.

But you could also say:

• Jeszcze trwa odliczanie, więc skreślę jedną odpowiedź.
• Odliczanie trwa jeszcze, więc skreślę jedną odpowiedź.

These are all understandable, but the original sounds very neutral and natural.

In the second clause, you could also move things for emphasis:

• ...więc jedną odpowiedź skreślę.

That puts more focus on jedną odpowiedź.

So yes, word order can change, but the original version is a good standard model to learn from.

Yes, exactly.

• Odliczanie jeszcze trwa = present tense, the countdown is still going on
• skreślę jedną odpowiedź = future meaning, I will cross out one answer

This is completely normal. The sentence describes:

1. a current situation, and
2. a next action that will follow from it

English does the same thing very naturally:

• The countdown is still going on, so I’ll cross out one answer.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• skreślę ≈ SKRESH-len

A few helpful notes:

• ś is a soft sh-like sound
• śl is pronounced as a soft cluster, not like a hard English sl
• ę at the end is often pronounced less strongly than learners expect; in normal speech it may sound closer to something like e or en/em depending on context

You do not need to pronounce final ę as a fully strong nasal vowel in every situation. Native pronunciation often weakens it.

So for learning purposes, something like SKRESH-leh / SKRESH-len gets you in the right area.