Breakdown of Chciałabym umówić się na wizytę w poniedziałek o drugiej.
w
in / on (a day)
na
on, at / to (motion toward) / for (a meal) / for (waiting for)
poniedziałek
Monday
o
at (time)
drugi
second / the other (in 'one another')
chciałbym
I would like (m) / chciałabym (f)
umówić się
to make an appointment
wizyta
the appointment / the visit
Questions & Answers about Chciałabym umówić się na wizytę w poniedziałek o drugiej.
How do we know the speaker of this sentence is a woman?
Because she says chciałabym. The -a- before the -bym ending shows that the speaker is female. If a man were speaking, he would drop the -a- and say chciałbym.
Why do we need the word się after umówić?
The verb umówić się (to make an appointment or arrange to meet) uses the reflexive pronoun się when you are making an appointment for yourself. Without się, it would mean you are arranging a meeting for someone else.
What case is used in the phrase na wizytę?
It uses the accusative case. When you make an appointment for a specific purpose, you use the preposition na followed by the accusative case. The dictionary form wizyta (visit/appointment) changes its ending to wizytę.
Why does the sentence use w for the day but o for the time?
Polish uses different prepositions for days and exact hours. To say 'on a day of the week', you use w plus the accusative case, which gives us w poniedziałek. To say 'at a specific time', you use o plus the locative case, giving us o drugiej.
Why do we say o drugiej instead of the normal number two (dwa)?
When telling time in Polish, you use ordinal numbers (first, second, third) instead of regular numbers (one, two, three). O drugiej literally means 'at the second'. Because the hidden word for hour (godzina) is feminine, the number takes a feminine ending.
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