dojść

Polish

Alternative forms

• dojć, dość (Middle Polish)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔjɕt͡ɕ/

• (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)
   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 move in a specific way to reach a point in space) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
3. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to arrive at an addressee) [with do (+ genitive) ‘whom’]
4. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to reach a specific place by spreading in its own way) [with accusative or do (+ genitive) ‘whom’]
5. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to join or be joined to an already existing group of people, phenomena or things) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
6. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to achieve a certain kind of trait or state) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]

   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) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
8. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to achieve some state after trying) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
9. (intransitive) to come to (to be realized) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
10. (intransitive, sports) to approach (to make contact with the ball in order to make a throw or shot) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what ball’] (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
11. (intransitive) to catch up with [with accusative ‘whom/what’]

    Synonym: dogonić

12. (intransitive) to come to (to get something legally) [with genitive ‘what’]
13. (intransitive) to reach, to come to (to formulate a certain kind of thought on some basis) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
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

Conjugation of dojść pf
	person	singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	virile	nonvirile
infinitive		dojść
future tense	1st	dojdę			dojdziemy
	2nd	dojdziesz			dojdziecie
	3rd	dojdzie			dojdą
	impersonal	dojdzie się
past tense	1st	doszedłem, -(e)m doszedł	doszłam, -(e)m doszła	doszłom, -(e)m doszło	doszliśmy, -(e)śmy doszli	doszłyśmy, -(e)śmy doszły
	2nd	doszedłeś, -(e)ś doszedł	doszłaś, -(e)ś doszła	doszłoś, -(e)ś doszło	doszliście, -(e)ście doszli	doszłyście, -(e)ście doszły
	3rd	doszedł	doszła	doszło	doszli	doszły
conditional	1st	doszedłbym, bym doszedł	doszłabym, bym doszła	doszłobym, bym doszło	doszlibyśmy, byśmy doszli	doszłybyśmy, byśmy doszły
	2nd	doszedłbyś, byś doszedł	doszłabyś, byś doszła	doszłobyś, byś doszło	doszlibyście, byście doszli	doszłybyście, byście doszły
	3rd	doszedłby, by doszedł	doszłaby, by doszła	doszłoby, by doszło	doszliby, by doszli	doszłyby, by doszły
imperative	1st	niech dojdę			dojdźmy
	2nd	dojdź			dojdźcie
	3rd	niech dojdzie			niech dojdą
anterior adverbial participle		doszedłszy
verbal noun		dojście

Verb

dojść pf (imperfective dochodzić)

1. (impersonal) to come to (to result in a particular negative situation) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]

Conjugation

Conjugation of dojść
infinitive	dojść
future indicative	dojdzie
past indicative	doszło
conditional	doszłoby by doszło
imperative	niech dojdzie

Derived terms

adjective

• doszły

 

nouns

• dojśćie

 

verbs

• dojść do głosu pf, dochodzić do głosu impf
• dojść do ładu pf, dochodzić do ładu impf
• dojść do siebie pf, dochodzić do siebie impf
• dojść do skutku pf, dochodzić do skutku impf

 

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

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