"Do you have some water?"

Translation: Macie trochę wody?

[conor.raff]

I was surprised by "wody", was expecting "wodę"....(fem. sg. acc.)...but then I don't know the rules yet....

So from the declension of "woda" at...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woda#Polish

we're either using nom. plural, acc. plural, gen. sing. or voc. plural (unlikely)

which is it please?

[immery]

genitive sing. (water is uncountable in this sentence)

[MichaelFivez]

Why is it genitive? Uncountable words are in genitive?

[immery]

because of "trochę" quantifiers like this require genitive.

trochę should be in accusative, but as "trochę" does not change with cases, you don't see that.

Macie szklankę wody?= Do you have a glass of water?, works the same , but you see glass in accusative, water in genitive

[MichaelFivez]

Thanks ! I realized it when I was a couple questions further

[Jellei]

The 'some' part (just like "a bit", "a lot of" and I think all the other quantifiers) needs Genitive.

[zagadka314]

My grammar book says genitive is used for all quantifiers.

[elevy23]

Can I ask what grammar book you are using? I'd like to buy one.

[DavidCarver]

can this also mean "do you have any water"?

[Jellei]

We wondered, and it doesn't seem like a good translation.

[DavidCarver]

Not sure that I agree; a normal rule in English is that "some" is used with affirmative and "any with negative and interrogative - eg, "I've got some water but he hasn't got any"; "have you got any water? We desperately need some". nb, if the interrogative is used to make an offer, then "some" is normal - eg "Do you want some water?" I realise that the suggested answers try to mirror the Hungarian form, but at least for the sake of non-mother tongue English learners, we should depart too far from standard English. Hope this helps.

[Jellei]

I would rather accept "any water" for normal "Masz wodę?" than "Masz trochę wody?"... That's my feel, at least...

[DavidCarver]

OK, a case where English grammar/usage does not match that of Polish.

[JanKLinde]

"Do you have any water?" (Macie wodę?) is just a simple question. "Do you have some water?" (Macie trochę wody?) implies a request: "Could you give me some?"