Polish · Parkowanie / mandat
You ask how to pay for parking: what to say in Polish
You ask how to pay for parking.
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How it's done. In a paid zone (strefa płatnego parkowania) you pay at a parkomat or in an app: at the machine you enter the plate and time; the bilet parkingowy is placed behind the windscreen.Prepared by the Movko team, November 2026. This is language help, not legal or medical advice: check the rules with the office itself.
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YOU START
Przepraszam, gdzie mogę zapłacić za parkowanie?
Psheh-PRAH-shuhm, gdzyeh MOH-geh zuh-PVAH-tseetsy zah puhr-koh-VAH-nyeh?
Excuse me, where can I pay for parking?
Or say:Przepraszam, jak działa parkowanie w tej strefie?
Psheh-PRAH-shuhm, yahk DZYAH-vuh puhr-koh-VAH-nyeh f tay STREH-fyeh?
THEY SAY
Tam jest parkomat. Proszę wpisać numer rejestracyjny.Tahm yehst puhr-KOH-muht. PROH-sheh FPEE-suhtsy NOO-mehr reh-ehs-truh-TSIHY-nih.
There is a parking meter. Please enter the plate number.
They might also say:
Przy parkomacie albo w aplikacji.
Pshih puhr-koh-MAH-tsyeh AHL-boh v uh-plee-KAH-tsyee.
At the parking meter or in an app.
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YOU FINISH
A do której muszę płacić?
Uh doh KTOO-ray MOO-sheh PVAH-tseetsy?
And until what time do I have to pay?
THEY SAY
W dni robocze do osiemnastej.V dnee roh-BOH-cheh doh oh-syehm-NAHS-tay.
On working days until six p.m.
The course is in the app
This dialogue is part of the course “Polish for life in Poland”: 416 situations with audio, a pronunciation guide and spaced review.
On the website the first dialogue, the 112 category, the rescue phrases and the “Basics” are fully open.
Words worth knowing
Przepraszam
Psheh-PRAH-shuhm
verb
excuse me, sorry
gdzie
gdzyeh
adverb
where
mogę
MOH-geh
verb
I can
zapłacić
zuh-PVAH-tseetsy
verb
to pay
parkowanie
puhr-koh-VAH-nyeh
noun
parking
Tam
Tahm
adverb
there
16 more words, with explanations, base forms and tap-a-word help, are in the app.
If you did not understand
Proszę powtórzyć.
PROH-sheh pof-TOO-zhitsy.
Please repeat that.
Proszę mówić wolniej.
PROH-sheh MOO-veetsy VOL-nyay.
Please speak more slowly.
Proszę mi to pokazać.
PROH-sheh mee toh poh-KAH-zuhtsy.
Please show me.
Similar situations
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→You get a residents' parking permit in a paid parking zoneParkowanie / mandat · A2 in the app
→Your car is not where you left it and you ask whether it was towedParkowanie / mandat · A2 in the app
→Your car broke down on the road and you phone for helpAwaria / holowanie · A2 in the app
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