"Próbujesz pomagać pracownikom."

Translation: You are trying to help the employees.

[gizzard123]

One has to be careful because the woman's voice sounds as if she's asking a question. Instead she's making a statement. If you write the sentence in a question form (are you trying to help the workers?), you'll get it wrong. I keep falling for this all the time. Arghhhhhh! Is it just me?

[mark.boats]

Not just you, there's a very clear rising inflection at the end of the audio that got me too :-D

I guess the lack of a question mark in the text should make it clear the sentance is a statement and not a question...

[matt.elsewhere]

Is it also possible to say "Próbujesz pomóc pracownikom"? What is the different in meaning?

[Yola448704]

pomóc - to help once
pomagać - to help on multiple occasions

[ann666]

Pomagać - repetitive action

Pomóc - one-time action

[immery]

No.

Pomóc is the verb that has only future and past . It more less means I have helped/I will have helped. It is the consequence that is important

Pomagać- can hapen in past present and future- it is the action that is important, it can be both repetative and one time.

[Vst321]

Why does 'pracownicy' become dative here?

[Jellei]

They are the indirect object of the verb "pomagać", and indirect objects take Dative in Polish.

[IvesAB]

So the rules for case declension apply even when the verb is in the infinitive with a "helper" verb before it?

[Jellei]

Yes. For example you'd also have "próbujesz pić wodę" (Accusative) or "musisz szukać kota" (Genitive).

[IvesAB]

Got it. Thank you

[Walkinthedog]

I tried assist and it didn't work, I feel it should, as both mean the same.

[Jellei]

OK, added.

[janezg]

what about "Do you try to help the employees"

[WrzodX]

If there was a question mark "Próbujesz pomagać pracownikom?", it would've been correct to write "Do you try to help the employees?".