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  What it means

  Literally “what do you have as a name?” The standard Polish way to ask someone’s first name — “what’s your name?”

  Vocabulary

  • jak — how / what
  • masz — you have (2nd person singular of 'mieć')
  • imię — first name

  Grammar note

  'Na imię' uses the accusative after 'na'. The answer uses the same construction: 'mam na imię Anna' (my name is Anna — literally 'I have Anna as a name').

  Cultural context

  Note that Polish distinguishes 'imię' (first name) from 'nazwisko' (surname). This question asks only for the first name.

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