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Właściwie nie wiem, dlaczego.

Właściwie nie wiem, dlaczego.
Actually, I don't know why.
From Lesson 217:Softening and stressing (po prostu, tak naprawdę, w ogóle)·Polish

Questions & Answers about Właściwie nie wiem, dlaczego.

Does właściwie come from the word for 'proper' or 'right'?
Yes! The adjective właściwy means 'proper' or 'correct.' While the adverb właściwie can mean 'properly,' in everyday conversational Polish it is heavily used as a filler word meaning 'actually,' 'as a matter of fact,' or 'basically.'
Could I use aktualnie instead of właściwie here?
No, this is a classic false friend that often trips up English speakers. In Polish, aktualnie means 'currently' or 'at the moment.' To say 'actually' in the sense of expressing a realization or adding a thought, you should use właściwie, w sumie, or tak naprawdę.
Why is there a comma before dlaczego?
Polish punctuation is much stricter than English. You almost always need a comma before a question word (like dlaczego, co, or gdzie) when it introduces a second part of a sentence. Even though the rest of the sentence is dropped here (it implies 'I do not know why it is like this'), the comma is still required before dlaczego.

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