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Are you ordering tea? That would be proszę herbatę.
"Prosisz o herbatę" doesn't work at all while ordering tea/asking someone to serve tea.
You could say:
Proszę herbatę.
Herbatę proszę.
Poproszę herbatę.
However, it works as a present tense form.
"Jak często prosisz o herbatę?"
“poproszę o filiżankę herbaty” is perfect Polish, but I’d rather expect something like this in books, not in real-life conversations
. Probably, because most Poles drink tea from glasses."Herbaty" is correct too. It's "dopełniacz cząstkowy":
dopełniacz cząstkowy - Poradnia językowa PWN
You can use this form, when you don't want all pot / bottle of tea or all loaf of bread but only some of them.
What is a specific context?
The most naturally sounding phrase may differ depending on the relation between the person asking and the person asked, as well as the overall setup. Does someone ask if they should make a tea for you, or are you both in a cafe and they are urging you to decide because the waiter is waiting, or does the waiter (or whoever else) confirm if he had heard you correctly? Or, perhaps, the scenario is entirely different?
The most naturally sounding phrase may differ depending on the relation between the person asking and the person asked, as well as the overall setup. Does someone ask if they should make a tea for you, or are you both in a cafe and they are urging you to decide because the waiter is waiting, or does the waiter (or whoever else) confirm if he had heard you correctly? Or, perhaps, the scenario is entirely different?
There is no specific context, I just wanted to check if a grammatical phenomenon which works in Slovak (and Hungarian), but not in Czech, works in Polish, too. Czechs do not say: Prosíš si... either, while 1st sg. works somehow. Thanks. We can close the discussion.
You mean 1st person sg, like Prosím si borůvkovou..?
When I was a little child, my granny taught my a Hungarian rhyme. With a help of a translator it was like:
Jónapot, kérem Pesti hírlapot. - Elfogytak. - Akár jónapot.
Sorry for any mistakes, I'm a beginner in Hungarian.