wejść

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• Rhymes: -ɛjɕt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: wejść

Inherited from Old Polish wnić, from Proto-Slavic *vъnjьti, remodeled on other verbs such as wyjść. By surface analysis, w(e)- +‎ iść. For the insertion of ś, see iść.

wejść pf (imperfective wchodzić)

1. (intransitive) to go in; to walk in, to enter (to go or come on foot into an enclosed or partially enclosed space)

   Synonym: wleźć

   Proszę, wejdź! ― Please, come in!

2. (intransitive) to go on, to climb (to go or come on foot onto the upper part of something or to a higher position)

   Synonym: wleźć

   Antonym: zleźć

3. (intransitive) to go in, to enter (to arrive somewhere by any means of transportation)
4. (intransitive) to go into (by extending in space, to cross the boundary of something and extend beyond it)
5. (intransitive) to go in (to fit somewhere; to be the proper size for) ,
6. (intransitive) to sink in, to go in, to enter (to gradually go deeper into something)
7. (intransitive) to enter, to get into (to become a participant of something or engaged in something)
8. (intransitive) to enter (to begin to exist in a particular state)
9. (intransitive) to go into, to enter (to become subject to a state, rule or action)
10. (intransitive) to log on (to begin to use some website or software)

    Synonym: wleźć

11. (intransitive) to enter (to become part of a larger whole composed of a particular type of person or element)
12. (intransitive) to enter (to penetrate during sex)
13. (intransitive) to enter (to combine with some type of substance to then become part of some chemical process)
14. (intransitive, colloquial, of pain, cramps, etc.) to set in (to start to be felt somewhere)
15. (intransitive, colloquial) to nab (to seize someone's material goods)
16. (intransitive) to get in (to become involved in some kind of venture)
17. (intransitive) to go in, to step into (to place one's foot into i.e. a puddle)
18. (intransitive) to walk into (to bump into or make contact with on foot)
19. (intransitive) to enter (to conquer or gain some area or territory)
20. (intransitive) to enter (while moving, to change one's manner of motion)
21. (intransitive) to get into (to ponder deeply)
22. (intransitive) to jut into (of objects; to occupy the space of something else)
23. (intransitive, obsolete) to come in as income
24. (intransitive, obsolete, of plants) to sprout (to begin growing from seeds)
25. (intransitive, obsolete, of celestial objects) to rise (to begin to be seen in the sky)

    Synonym: wzejść

• wniść, wnijść (obsolete or regional)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wejść is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 17 times in essays, 39 times in fiction, and 42 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 127 times, making it the 472nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wejść n

1. genitive plural of wejście

• wejść in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wejść in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wejść”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “WEJŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 03.01.2022
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wejść”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wejść”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wejść”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 501