Question 1

Why is the acronym PIT written without any hyphenated declension here?

Accepted Answer

The acronym PIT (Personal Income Tax) is treated as a masculine inanimate noun in standard Polish. The verb rozliczyć requires the accusative case. For masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative form is identical to the nominative, so it remains exactly as PIT. Note that in very colloquial speech, you might hear people treat it as animate and say rozliczyć PIT-a, but the uninflected PIT is the correct written standard here.

Question 2

Does the verb rozliczyć always mean 'to file'?

Accepted Answer

Not exactly. Rozliczyć broadly means 'to settle an account', 'to balance', or 'to account for' something. However, when paired with taxes or tax forms like PIT, rozliczyć (or the reflexive rozliczyć się) is the standard collocation used to mean 'to file a tax return'.

Question 3

Why does the sentence use swój instead of twój?

Accepted Answer

Swój is the reflexive possessive pronoun, used whenever the object belongs to the subject of the sentence. Since the subject is 'you' (implied by powinieneś) and you are filing your own tax return, Polish requires swój. Using twój here would sound quite unnatural to native speakers.

Question 4

How would this sentence change if I were speaking to a woman?

Accepted Answer

The modal-like verb form powinieneś is masculine singular. If you were giving this advice to a female friend, you would need to change it to the feminine form, saying powinnaś rozliczyć swój PIT do końca kwietnia.

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