dojść

Polish

Alternative forms

• dojć, dość (Middle Polish)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔjɕt͡ɕ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔjɕt͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔjɕt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: dojść

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish dojć. By surface analysis, do- +‎ iść. For the insertion of ś, see iść.

Verb

dojść pf (imperfective dochodzić)

1. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach, to get to (to get somewhere by foot)

   Nad ranem w końcu doszliśmy do schroniska. ― At daybreak, we finally arrived at the mountain hut.

   1. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach, to get to (of vehicles or air, etc.; to reach somewhere)
   2. (intransitive) to hit (of bullets, etc. to reach a target)
   3. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach, to get to (of information, etc.; to be found out)
   4. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach, to get to (sounds, visual stimulus, etc.; to be sensed)
2. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to moving in a specific way to reach a point in space)
3. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to arrive at an addressee)
4. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to reach a specific place by spreading in its own way) or
5. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to join or be joined to an already existing group of people, phenomena or things)
6. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to achieve a certain kind of trait or state)

   Mój ojciec nigdy do niczego w życiu nie doszedł. ― My father never amounted to anything in his life.

   1. (intransitive, colloquial) to finish (of foods, to finish cooking)
7. (intransitive) to get to, to make it to (to reach a particular point in a series)
8. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to achieve some state after trying)
9. (intransitive) to come to (to be realized)
10. (intransitive, sports) to approach (to make contact with the ball in order to make a throw or shot) (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
11. (intransitive) to catch up with

    Synonym: dogonić

12. (intransitive) to come to (to get something legally)
13. (intransitive) to reach, to come to (to formulate a certain kind of thought on some basis)
14. (intransitive) to come to (to find out or reach some conclusion)

    Doszedłeś już, jak to działa? ― Have you found out how this works yet?

15. (intransitive) to get to (to be able to be used by people, i.e. of food)
16. (intransitive, colloquial) to come (to achieve orgasm)
17. (intransitive) to arrive at, to reach (to come to some border in space or time)
18. (intransitive) to reach (to come to some amount or number)
19. (intransitive) to come to (to be an addition to something)
20. (intransitive) to mature (of fruits, food, etc., to become ripe)

    Synonym: dojrzeć

21. (intransitive, colloquial, hunting) to get within shooting distance of the game
22. (obsolete, intransitive, hunting) to hit (to kill an animal)
23. (obsolete, intransitive) to match, to equal, to measure up to

    Synonym: dorównać

24. (obsolete, intransitive) to go to the end of (to attend or go to something until the end of that thing)

Conjugation

Verb

dojść pf (imperfective dochodzić)

1. (impersonal) to come to (to result in a particular negative situation)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dojść is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 22 times in news, 15 times in essays, 21 times in fiction, and 19 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 93 times, making it the 677th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

dojść n

1. genitive plural of dojście

References

Further reading

• dojść in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dojść in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “dojść”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “DOJŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 05.06.2023
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “dojść”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “dojść”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dojść”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 490
• dojść in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego