wskazywać

From wskazać +‎ -ywać. First attested in the 16th century.^[1] Displaced Middle Polish wskazować. Compare Kashubian wskazëwac／wskazowac and Silesian wskazować.

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• Rhymes: -ɘvat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: wska‧zy‧wać

wskazywać impf (perfective wskazać)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to point, to indicate, to show (to show with one's finger or gesture)

   On wskazuje na żyrafę. ― He is pointing at the giraffe.

2. (transitive) to point, to indicate, to show (to communicate to someone in order to choose a particular thing amongst other things)
3. (transitive) to point, to indicate, to show (to be the base on which someone draws a conclusion)

   Synonym: implikować

   Wyniki wskazują, że wszystko schodzi na psy. ― The results indicate that everything is going to the dogs.

4. (transitive) to point, to indicate, to show (of i.e. measuring devices, to present a direction or value)
5. (transitive) to point, to indicate, to show (to draw someone's attention towards something)
6. (transitive, obsolete) to issue a recommendation or order; to pronounce
7. (transitive, obsolete) to deem, to judge (to isse one's judgement on someone)
8. (transitive, obsolete) to cede, to transfer
9. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be visible, to be seen

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wskazywać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 18 times in news, 27 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 864th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[2]

• wskazywać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wskazywać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wskazywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wskazywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wskazywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 738
• wskazywać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego