pozwalać
Appearance
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pozwolić + -ać. First attested in the 16th century.[1] Compare Kashubian pòzwôlac, and Silesian pozwŏlać.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pozwalać impf (perfective pozwolić)
- (intransitive) to allow (to give permission; to not obstruct) [with dative ‘whom’, along with na (+ accusative) ‘what’ or infinitive or żeby (+ infinitive or past-tense clause) ‘to do what’]
- (intransitive) to permit (to allow legally) [with dative ‘whom’, along with na (+ accusative) ‘what’ or infinitive ‘to do what’]
- (intransitive) to allow, to permit (to cause something to be possible) [with na (+ accusative) ‘what’; or with infinitive ‘to do what’]
- Synonym: umożliwiać
- (reflexive with sobie) to allow oneself, to let oneself (to give permission to oneself to do something that might otherwise be considered inappropriate) [with infinitive ‘to do what’; or with na (+ accusative) ‘what’]
- (reflexive with sobie) to allow oneself, to let oneself (to do something that one considers they ought to do) [with infinitive ‘to do what’]
- (transitive, obsolete) to grant, to accord, to give [with accusative or genitive]
Conjugation
[edit]Related terms
[edit]noun
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pozwalać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 25 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 23 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 73 times, making it the 886th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pozwalać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “pozwalać”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 426
Further reading
[edit]- pozwalać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pozwalać sobie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pozwalać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “03.09.2020”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
- Paweł Kupiszewski (03.09.2020) “POZWALAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “pozwalać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “pozwalać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pozwalać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 921
- pozwalać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Categories:
- Polish terms suffixed with -ać
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/alat͡ɕ
- Rhymes:Polish/alat͡ɕ/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish verbs
- Polish imperfective verbs
- Polish intransitive verbs
- Polish reflexive verbs
- Polish transitive verbs
- Polish terms with obsolete senses