przyjść

Polish

Alternative forms

• przyść, przyści, przyć, przyjć (Middle Polish)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʂɨjɕt͡ɕ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈpʂɨjɕt͡ɕ/, /ˈpr̝ɨjɕt͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -ɨjɕt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: przyjść

Verb

przyjść pf (imperfective przychodzić)

1. (intransitive, of people) to come, to arrive (moving on foot, to get to a certain place)
   1. (intransitive, of vehicles) to come, to arrive
   2. (intransitive) to come (to arrive at a place to do the typical things one would do at that place, either once or for a while)
   3. (intransitive, of messages etc.) to come (to be delivered to the intended addressee or place)
   4. (intransitive, colloquial) to come (to arrive at a place to pick up or drop off passengers)
   5. (intransitive, obsolete) to reach a border or boundary in time
2. (intransitive) to get (to acquire a specific mental or physical condition)

   przyjść do formy ― to get into shape

   przyjść do zdrowia ― to get healthy

   przyjść do równowagi ― to find one's balance

3. (intransitive, of events) to come (to start to take place)
   1. (intransitive, colloquial) to come next (to take place after something else)
4. (intransitive, of a desire or other phenomena) to take (to start to be felt by a person)

   Synonym: nasunąć się

   Przyszła mi ochota na burger. ― I got a craving for a burger.

5. (intransitive) to come (to be able to be achieved)
6. (impersonal) to come to; to have to , ,

   Przyszło mi ci powiedzieć, że musimy zwrócić mu opłatę. ― I have to tell you that we gave to give him the money back.

   Przyszło jej na to, że musiała pójść tam sama. ― She had to go by herself.

7. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to come back, to return

   Synonym: wrócić

8. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to take up a challenge
9. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to join a group

   Synonyms: dołączyć się, przyłączyć się

10. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to come, to appear

    Synonyms: objawić się, pojawić się

    1. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to be born

       Synonym: urodzić się

11. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to equal (to result from arithmetic)
12. (Middle Polish) The meaning of this term is uncertain.
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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przyjść is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 4 times in essays, 54 times in fiction, and 162 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 234 times, making it the 234th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

• przyjść in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• przyjść in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “przyjść”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Paweł Kupiszewski (12.06.2023) “PRZYJŚĆ”, 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) “przyjść”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “przyjść”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “przyjść”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 299