Breakdown of Wolisz prasować ubrania czy gotować obiad?
gotować
to cook
obiad
dinner / lunch (midday meal)
czy
or (in alternative questions)
woleć
to prefer
Questions & Answers about Wolisz prasować ubrania czy gotować obiad?
Why do we use the imperfective verbs prasować and gotować instead of perfective ones like ugotować?
Just like the phasal verbs (zaczynać, kończyć) you are learning in this lesson, verbs that express a general preference or feeling like woleć (to prefer) or lubić (to like) are almost always followed by an imperfective infinitive. This is because you are talking about the activity as a general concept or habit, not a one-time completed action.
Why does this sentence use czy for 'or' instead of albo?
In Polish, czy is used for 'or' when you are asking a question that offers a direct choice between two things. Albo is used for 'or' in regular statements. Since this sentence is a question asking the listener to pick their preferred option, czy is the correct word.
What case are the words ubrania and obiad in?
They are in the Accusative case because they are the direct objects of the verbs prasować and gotować. Both words happen to look exactly like their dictionary (Nominative) forms here. Obiad is a masculine inanimate noun, and ubrania is a neuter plural noun, and both of these categories have identical Nominative and Accusative forms.
What is the dictionary form (infinitive) of wolisz?