"I have time in the afternoon."
Translation:Mam czas po południu.
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It's a perfectly fine sentence, but nothing here guarantees that we're talking about dziś = today. Maybe we're discussing next Saturday.
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Why is it sometimes "czas" and sometimes "czasu" with the verb "mam" ?
Accusative is "czas", Genitive is "czasu".
"mieć" takes Accusative, but when a verb needing Accusative is negated, then it takes Genitive.
Alternatively, you may have seen something like "Mam trochę czasu" (I have some time), "trochę" and other quantifiers like that need Genitive.
... could it be that you are asking about a negative so "nie mam" would take "czasu" as opposed to "mam czas".....
you can say "mam czas po obiedzie" - which means you have time after "obiad"- so late afternoon/early evening.
Define 'speak' ;) Apart from Polish and English, I think I'd do alright as a tourist speaking Spanish and possibly Russian (it got rusty now), but that's it. Although I did manage to buy some cake in Budapest speaking only in Hungarian.
It's Locative. It literally means "after noon" (noon = południe). I think that technically Locative is being introduced in the next skill, but this is just taught as a phrase.
Why is the sentence "Mam dziś czas" correct but "Mam po południu czas" wrong? Thanks!
Good question... I think "Mam po południu czas" feels weird because "południu" is a noun, so there's no problem with putting it at the end of the sentence, while "dziś" is an adverb and we avoid putting those at the end.