Badanie techniczne odbędzie się na stacji kontroli pojazdów.

Yes. Badanie techniczne literally means technical examination/inspection.

In this context, it refers to the official inspection of a vehicle’s roadworthiness. In everyday Polish, people also very often say przegląd techniczny or just przegląd.

So:

• badanie techniczne = a more official/formal term
• przegląd techniczny = very common everyday term for a vehicle inspection

Both are understandable, but badanie techniczne sounds especially suitable in formal notices or official communication.

In Polish, adjectives usually come after the noun much more often than in English? Not exactly — actually, both orders exist, but the normal neutral order is usually:

• adjective + noun, for example techniczne badanie

However, in many fixed expressions, official terms, and standard collocations, you will often see:

• noun + adjective, for example badanie techniczne

This phrase is a set expression. It is simply the standard way to name this procedure.

So although English says technical inspection, Polish conventionally says badanie techniczne.

Odbędzie się means will take place.

It comes from the verb odbyć się, which means:

• to take place
• to be held
• to occur

So:

• badanie techniczne odbędzie się... = the technical inspection will take place...

This is a very common verb in formal announcements about events, appointments, meetings, exams, inspections, and similar scheduled things.

Examples:

• Spotkanie odbędzie się jutro. = The meeting will take place tomorrow.
• Egzamin odbędzie się w maju. = The exam will take place in May.

The verb is odbyć się, not just odbyć.

Here się is part of the verb and helps create the meaning to take place / to be held. You should learn it as one whole unit:

• odbyć = to carry out / to complete / to serve
• odbyć się = to take place

So się is not optional here.

Compare:

• Odbył karę. = He served his sentence.
• Koncert odbył się wczoraj. = The concert took place yesterday.

That is a big difference in meaning.

Odbędzie się is the simple future of a perfective verb: odbyć się.

Polish has two common ways to talk about the future:

1. Perfective verb in simple future

   • odbędzie się = will take place

2. Imperfective verb in compound future

   • będzie się odbywać = will be taking place / will be going on

In this sentence, the inspection is a single scheduled event, so Polish naturally uses the perfective future:

• Badanie techniczne odbędzie się...

Using będzie się odbywać would suggest more of an ongoing process or repeated/background action, which is less natural here.

In Polish, się is usually placed after the conjugated verb, especially in neutral word order.

So:

• odbędzie się is the normal order

You may sometimes see się in other positions in longer sentences, because Polish word order is flexible, but learners should treat:

• verb + się

as the safest default pattern.

So odbędzie się is exactly what you would expect.

Polish uses na with some places where English uses in or at. A vehicle inspection station is one of those places.

So:

• na stacji kontroli pojazdów = at the vehicle inspection station

This is idiomatic Polish.

Compare:

• na poczcie = at the post office
• na lotnisku = at the airport
• na stacji benzynowej = at the gas station
• na stacji kontroli pojazdów = at the vehicle inspection station

Using w stacji would sound wrong here.

Because na here expresses location, and after na in a location meaning, Polish uses the locative case.

So:

• dictionary form: stacja
• after na (location): na stacji

This is the locative singular.

A few similar examples:

• na ulicy = on the street
• na poczcie = at the post office
• na stacji = at the station

So na stacji is required by the grammar.

This is a chain of of relationships, which Polish often expresses with the genitive case.

Literally, it is something like:

• station of control of vehicles

Breakdown:

• stacji = at the station (locative, because of na)
• kontroli = of control (genitive singular from kontrola)
• pojazdów = of vehicles (genitive plural from pojazdy)

So:

• stacja kontroli pojazdów = vehicle inspection station = literally station of vehicle control/inspection

This kind of noun chain is very common in Polish.

The base form is pojazd = vehicle.

Plural:

• pojazdy = vehicles
• pojazdów = of vehicles

Polish uses pojazd because it is broader and more official than samochód (car). A vehicle inspection station can inspect more than just cars, for example:

• motorcycles
• vans
• trucks
• other registered vehicles

So pojazdów is the official, general word.

Yes, it sounds fairly formal and official.

A Polish speaker might use this kind of sentence in:

• an official message
• an appointment notice
• a service reminder
• written communication from a garage or inspection center

In everyday speech, someone might say something more casual, for example:

• Przegląd będzie na stacji kontroli pojazdów.
• Musisz pojechać na badanie techniczne.

But the original sentence is perfectly natural in formal Polish.

Yes, that is a very natural translation.

Even though the Polish literally contains badanie techniczne and stacja kontroli pojazdów, good English often avoids sounding repetitive or overly literal.

Possible natural translations include:

• The technical inspection will take place at the vehicle inspection station.
• The vehicle inspection will take place at the inspection station.
• The inspection will take place at the vehicle testing station.

Which version is best depends on context, but the Polish sentence itself is completely standard.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

ba-DA-nye tech-NICH-ne odben-JE shye na STA-tsyee kon-TRO-lee po-YAZ-doof

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• badanie: the nie sounds roughly like nye
• techniczne: ch is like a hard h sound
• odbędzie: dzi sounds like a soft j sound
• się is roughly shye
• stacji sounds like STA-tsyee
• pojazdów ends with -ów, pronounced roughly oof

If you want, a very careful learner-friendly chunking is:

• Badanie techniczne
• odbędzie się
• na stacji kontroli pojazdów