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Ive seen this sentence before as "Ktorá jest godzina?". Is that corrext? If so, which is "more" correct? If not, why not?
Apart from the fact that you used some weird accent which is not Polish, your sentence is even 'more correct' and more polite. However, it's such a commonly used fixed phrase, that I think simple "Która godzina" is totally natural and no one will bat an eye on the lack of "jest". So you are safe to use both, they mean totally, absolutely the same.
Thank you! That explains it well. Apologies on the accents - I do most of my Duolingo-ing on my phone, and my accented letters bar has all of the accented letters scrunched together so it's hard to press individual ones.
Since I didn't see "jest", I tried simply "What time ?", which was accepted.
"What time?" is correct in English in a context such as, for example,
- I have to get up early tomorrow morning.
- What time ?
Would "Która godzina?" be used in a similar scenario in Polish ?
Thanks.
"Która godzina?" is indeed not exactly grammatically, but that's a common, everyday way of putting it. With strangers it's probably better to be grammatical and ask "Która jest godzina?"
As "What time?" seems to mean "At what time?" in your example, that's "O której [godzinie/]?".
"Którą mamy godzinę", Accusative is needed.
Interesting question. I think I can imagine 'mamy' with any bigger period of time (a day, a week, a month, etc.), but not with an hour.
Also, "Która godzina?" is a fixed phrase which doesn't even have the verb (although it can have it, "Która jest godzina?" is also common and I guess more polite).
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can't believe it took this long in the course to learn how to ask this question
