"What do you want to read?"
Translation:Co chcesz przeczytać?
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Why the perfective, then? I want another reason than "because it is a task from the perfective section".
Was "czytać" not accepted? To me, there are at least three options, and of course 'the perfective section' shouldn't matter.
"Co chcesz czytać?" - What do you want to read, generally?
"Co chcesz przeczytać?" - What do you want to read and finish reading?
"Co chcesz poczytać?" - What do you want to read a bit? (especially makes a lot of sense when reading to children)
So, poczytać just means read a little? As in breeze over, glance at or survey a peice of writing?
Just read for a while. "Przepraszam, chciałbym spokojnie poczytać!" (Excuse me, I would like to read (a bit) in peace) -> I have a free hour and an interesting book, so I'd like to read a bit.
I can only imagine "naczytać się", na- is a prefix suggesting 'doing something a lot'. Not exactly the most common verb.
Past action is usually "przeczytać" (the book is read, it's finished) but imperfective "czytać" works in the past as well.
