pójść

Inherited from Old Polish pójć. By surface analysis, po- +‎ iść. For the epenthetic ś, see iść.

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• Rhymes: -ujɕt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: pójść

pójść pf (imperfective iść, indeterminate chodzić)

1. (intransitive, of people or animals) to go; to walk
2. (intransitive) to go, to attend
3. (intransitive) to go after, to follow (to imitate in one's actions or thoughts)
4. (intransitive, of vehicles) to go, to move
5. (intransitive, of letters, packages) to go (to move from sender to receiver)
6. (intransitive, of smells, etc.) to go; to spread
7. (intransitive, of lines, roads, etc.) to go, to lead (to connect two points in space)
8. (intransitive, of media) to go; to be published; to be shown
9. (intransitive, of events) to go (to take place in particular manner)

   Wszystko poszło zgodnie z planem. ― Everything went according to plan.

10. (intransitive, colloquial) to come along (to not cause difficulties for someone)
11. (intransitive, of machines, devices, etc.) to run (to operate as normal)
12. (intransitive, colloquial) to go to (to be for a particular goal)
13. (intransitive, proscribed) to go; to be taken (to take place in a particular order)
14. (intransitive) to count, to number in (to measure a certain amount)
15. (intransitive) to go for (to decide on something in a given situation)
16. (intransitive, colloquial) to sell like hot cakes
17. (intransitive, impersonal) to mean, to be on about; to have in mind
18. (intransitive, reflexive with sobie) to go, to leave

pójść pf

1. (intransitive, colloquial) to go (to be destroyed or broken in a particular manner)
2. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) to take after (to inherit some trait)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pójść is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 13 times in essays, 66 times in fiction, and 104 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 192 times, making it the 292nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• pójść in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pójść in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “pość”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “PÓJŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2019 November 21
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “pójść”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “pójść”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pójść”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 933
• pójść in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego