Learn Polish: Kupiłbym albo ten naszyjnik, albo tę bransoletkę. - I would buy either this necklace or this bracelet.

Using albo ... albo ... translates to 'either ... or ...'. It emphasizes that these are two mutually exclusive choices, meaning you will buy one or the other, but not both. If you only used a single albo between the two items, it would simply mean 'or', which is less emphatic.

Why is there a comma before the second albo?

In Polish punctuation, when you repeat conjunctions like albo, i, or ani to link parts of a sentence, you must always place a comma before the second one. Because we are using the repeated albo ... albo ... structure here, that comma is required.

What does the ending on the verb Kupiłbym tell us about the speaker?

The -bym ending indicates the conditional mood ('I would buy') spoken by a male. To form it, you take the third-person masculine past tense (kupił) and add -bym. If a female were speaking, she would start with the feminine past tense (kupiła) and add -bym, resulting in Kupiłabym.

Both items are being bought, so why does bransoletkę change its ending while naszyjnik does not?