"Jak masz na imię?"

Translation: What is your name?

[will.klein08]

Is this considered rude? Should it instead be Jak pan ma na imię? Or Jak ma na imię?

[Jellei]

Well, it surely is not formal, but it's not rude. It could be "Jak pan ma na imię", although somehow I think I'd ask a stranger for a full name and ask "Jak się pan nazywa?".

"Jak ma na imię?" doesn't work here, it would be a question about some 3rd person singular subject that must be known from the context.

[will.klein08]

Dzięki!

[Closureyes]

What is this 'na'? I don't get where it comes from, why it's always in this phrase, please explain!!

[WquDT]

The preposition "na" can mean "for" and take accusative . We learnt it once before with the expression na sniadanie (for breakfast).For example "co jesz na sniadanie?" what are you eating for breakfast. In this example, the literal translation is " what do you have for a name?" and na takes accusative .

[WquDT]

When do you use jak and not a conjugated nominative form like jaki/jaka/jakie?