Word
Czy mógłby pan wezwać taksówkę do hotelu?
Meaning
Could you call a taxi to the hotel?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Czy mógłby pan wezwać taksówkę do hotelu?
pan
sir / Mr.
czy
[question particle]
móc
to be able to
do
to
Questions & Answers about Czy mógłby pan wezwać taksówkę do hotelu?
Why do we use mógłby pan instead of mógłbyś for "could you"?
To be polite! While mógłbyś is the informal "could you" (when speaking to a male friend), formal Polish uses the 3rd person singular form. It essentially translates to "Could the gentleman..." so we pair mógłby (he could) with pan (sir). If you were asking a woman, you would say mogłaby pani.
Why is "taxi" written as taksówkę with an -ę at the end?
Taksówka is the basic dictionary form. In this sentence, the taxi is the direct object of the action (it is the thing being called). This means it takes the accusative case. Feminine nouns ending in -a change their ending to -ę in the accusative, becoming taksówkę.
Why use wezwać (to summon) instead of a word like dzwonić (to call)?
Dzwonić means to ring or make a phone call to speak to a person. Wezwać is used when you are summoning something or someone to come to your location. You use wezwać for ordering a taxi, calling an ambulance, or sending for the police.
Why does hotel change to hotelu here?