Word
Maszyna potrzebuje prądu, więc proszę sprawdzić ten kabel.
Meaning
The machine needs electricity, so please check this cable.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Maszyna potrzebuje prądu, więc proszę sprawdzić ten kabel.
ten
this (m)
sprawdzić
to check
więc
so, therefore
proszę
please; here you are
Questions & Answers about Maszyna potrzebuje prądu, więc proszę sprawdzić ten kabel.
Could I use zatem instead of więc in this sentence?
Yes, you can! Both więc and zatem mean "so" or "therefore" and are used to show a consequence. However, więc is much more common in everyday speech, while zatem sounds a bit more formal or logical. Notice that in Polish, you always need a comma before więc or zatem when joining two parts of a sentence like this.
Why is it prądu instead of the basic form prąd? Doesn't the machine need a direct object?
In English, "electricity" is a direct object, but the Polish verb potrzebować (to need) always requires the thing being needed to be in the Genitive case. That is why the masculine noun prąd takes the Genitive ending -u to become prądu.
How does proszę sprawdzić work here to mean "please check"?
Using the word proszę (please / I ask) followed directly by an infinitive verb like sprawdzić (to check) is the standard way to make a polite, formal request in Polish. If you were speaking informally to a friend, you would use the direct imperative form instead: więc sprawdź ten kabel.
Why don't the words ten kabel change their endings?