dać

• dajać

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dati. First attested in 1270.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /dat͡ɕ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /dat͡ɕ/

dać pf (imperfective dawać)

1. to give (to transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone)) /
2. to give (to move, shift, provide something abstract to someone or something or somewhere)
3. to lend; to give forever or for a certain period of time (by obligation or against payment)
4. to give (to provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford)
5. to give, to hand, to pass (to place in someone's hand)
6. to give, to give off; to secret
7. to vomit
8. to move, to head somewhere
9. to deliver; to send
10. to send off, to make someone run away
11. to send a matter to a higher authority
12. to rely on the credibility of sworn persons
13. to make; to cause (to cause to be)
14. to let, to allow
15. to designate
16. to set a deadline or date; to schedule
17. to command, to order
18. (reflexive with się) to give in, to give up

• Polish: dać
• Silesian: dać

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “dać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “dać”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “dać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “dać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• daci (Middle Polish)

Inherited from Old Polish dać.

• Audio 1; “dać”:

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• Audio 2; “dać się”:

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• Rhymes: -at͡ɕ
• Syllabification: dać

dać pf (imperfective dawać)

1. (ditransitive) to give (to transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone))

   Dałeś dzieciom obiad? ― Did you give lunch to the children?

   • 2014, “In the Absence ov Light”, performed by Behemoth:

     Nie wierzę ani w Boga, ani w Rozum! / Dość już tych Bogów! Dajcie mi człowieka!

     I don’t believe in God nor in Reason! / Enough of these Gods! Give me a person!

2. (ditransitive) to give, to hand, to pass (to place in someone's hand)

   Synonym: podać

3. (ditransitive) to give (to allow someone to have access to, i.e. information)

   Synonym: podać

4. (transitive) to give, to put on (to be the performer of)
5. (transitive) to give (to cause to exist, particularly something beneficial)
6. (transitive) to put (to place in a particular location)

   Synonym: podziać

7. (transitive, colloquial) to pay (to cover a given cost)
8. (transitive) to give, to send, to put (to cause a given thing to go to a certain place to have something done to it)
9. (transitive) to send (to decide that a person will go to a particular location and perform the typical activity at said location)
10. (ditransitive, colloquial) to sell (to put into the ownership of someone else for a cost)

    Synonym: sprzedać

11. (ditransitive) to give (having the proper authority, to cause a state to affect someone)
12. (intransitive, colloquial) to hit (to use physical force against)

    Synonym: uderzyć

13. (ditransitive) to give (to apply some substance on someone that will affect them)
14. (intransitive) to let, to allow

    Synonym: pozwolić

    Daj mi posłuchać. ― Let me listen.

15. (intransitive, colloquial) to turn (to cause something to change directions; to change directions)
16. (intransitive, colloquial, of a woman) to put out; to consent to sex

    Jak było u niego? Dałaś mu? ― How was it at his place? Did you put out?

17. (intransitive, colloquial, of rain, snow, frost, etc.) to fall with intensity
18. (reflexive with się, colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to let, to allow oneself (to permit a particular thing to happen to a person)
19. (reflexive with się) to be possible (to be able to be done)

    Synonym: można

    Antonym: nie sposób

20. (intransitive, Near Masovian) to poison

    Synonym: otruć

An alternative form of imperative 2nd person plural dajcie is the archaic/rural form dajta, apparently a remnant of the archaic redundant dual form.

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 27 times in essays, 63 times in fiction, and 140 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 265 times, making it the 194th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dać się is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 9 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 16 times in essays, 11 times in fiction, and 33 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 73 times, making it the 879th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[2]

• dać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “dać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “dać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “DAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 25.08.2022
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “dać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “dać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dać, daci, dawać, dajać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 420
• dać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “dać”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 240
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “ńe dać”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 115

Inherited from Old Polish dać.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdat͡ɕ/
• Rhymes: -at͡ɕ
• Syllabification: dać

dać pf (imperfective dŏwać)

1. (ditransitive) to give (to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere)

   Synonyms: przekŏzać, wrynczyć

2. (transitive) to pass along (to send a message to)

   Synonyms: przekŏzać, poprosić

3. (transitive) to let, to allow

   Synonyms: pozwolić, przizwolić

4. (transitive) to give, to pay

   Synonyms: udać, zapłacić

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• dac in dykcjonorz.eu
• dać in silling.org

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dàti. Cognate with Lower Sorbian daś.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdat͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃ
• Hyphenation: dać
• Syllabification: dać

dać pf (imperfective dawać)

1. to give (to transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone))
2. to give, to hand, to pass (to place in someone's hand)

   Daj mi nóž. ― Give me a knife.

3. to let, to allow

   Daj jemu hić ― Let him go.

4. (reflexive with so) to start, to begin

   Jutře so do dźěła dam. ― I will start work tomorrow

5. (reflexive with so) to attack

dać impf or pf

1. (dialectal) to order, to tell someone to do something

   Da sebi zub wutorhnyć ― He ordered to have his tooth removed

• Schuster-Šewc, Heinz (1978) Historisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch der ober- und niedersorbischen Sprache [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Upper and Lower Sorbian Language] (in German), numbers 3 (čurać – ewangelski), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, →ISBN, page 142
• Křesćan Pful, editor (1866), “dać”, in Łužiski serbski słownik / Lausitzisch Wendisches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), Budyšin: Maćica Serbska, page 105
• “dać” in Soblex