Word
Masz ochotę pójść do kina?
Meaning
Do you feel like going to the cinema?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Masz ochotę pójść do kina?
kino
cinema
do
to
pójść
to go (on foot)
mieć ochotę
to feel like (mieć ochotę na + Acc / + infinitive)
Questions & Answers about Masz ochotę pójść do kina?
Why do we use Masz ochotę to mean "Do you feel like"?
In Polish, to express that you feel like doing something, you literally ask if someone "has the desire" to do it. Masz means "you have" and ochotę is the accusative (direct object) form of ochota, which means desire or inclination.
Why use pójść instead of iść?
Pójść is the perfective form of the verb iść (to go). You use pójść here because you are talking about a single, completed trip to the cinema, rather than the ongoing, continuous action of walking there.
Why is the word for cinema kina instead of kino?
The preposition do (meaning "to" or "into") always forces the noun that follows it to take the genitive case. Since kino is a neuter noun, its ending changes to "-a" to become kina in the genitive.
Is it okay to ask this without the word czy at the beginning?
Yes! While you can say Czy masz ochotę pójść do kina?, in spoken Polish it is very common to drop czy. You simply turn the statement into a question by raising the pitch of your voice at the end.