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wziąć

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Old Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъzęti. By surface analysis, wz- +‎ jąć. First attested in 1389.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /vʑɑ̃t͡ɕ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /vʑɑ̃t͡ɕ/

Verb

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wziąć pf

  1. to take (to get into one's hands)
  2. (of liquids) to draw, to scoop
  3. (of foods, medicines, etc.) to take, to ingest
  4. to place, to put
    Synonym: położyć
  5. to take along (to take with oneself)
  6. to remove (to cause the absence of by taking)
  7. to take, to borrow
  8. to free from captivity or enslavement
  9. to take away (to deprive someone of something)
  10. to occupy, to appropriate property
  11. to seize in damages for pledge, to secure claims
  12. to charge (to take a certain amount of money for something)
  13. to take into captivity or enslavement
    1. to be forced into a marriage
  14. to stay in harm's way
  15. to get back, to take back, to regain
    1. to have a debt paid back, to be paid back
  16. to get, to receive, to gain
    1. to receive as a dowry
  17. to inherit, to receive upon someone's death
  18. to accept, to receive, to take a gift or donation
  19. to be rewarded for contributions or punished for misdeeds
  20. to use, to apply
  21. to admit, to agree; to not reject
  22. to take in, to make a companion or participant in some activity, to let into company
  23. to conscript someone into helping
  24. to choose, to select, to pick out
  25. to marry, to take as a spouse
  26. to take responsibility for
  27. to host, to give hospitality, to have over
  28. to defend
  29. (of a title, position, honor, etc.) to take on, to commit to, to assume
  30. to stock up; to use a resource
  31. to draw; to take (a conclusion, lesson, proof, etc.)
  32. to contain
  33. to begin, to start, to initiate
  34. (reflexive with się) to get to something, to begin a task [with za (+ accusative) ‘what’]
  35. (reflexive with się) to appear, to show up
  36. (reflexive with się) to begin, to start, to initiate
  37. (reflexive with się) to speak up for, to defend [with o (+ accusative) ‘what’]
  38. (reflexive with się) to appeal to a court
  39. (reflexive with się) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. to take possession of something [with w (+ accusative) ‘what’]

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish wziąć. By surface analysis, wz- +‎ jąć.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio 1; “wziąć”:(file)
  • Audio 2; “wziąć”:(file)
  • Audio 3; “wziąć się”:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔɲt͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: wziąć

Verb

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wziąć pf (imperfective brać)

  1. (transitive) to take (to grab with the hands) [with instrumental ‘with what’; or with za (+ accusative) ‘by what part’]
  2. (transitive) to take (grabbing with one's hands, to place somewhere)
  3. (transitive) to take in (to agree to take care of)
  4. (transitive) to take (to allow to join)
  5. (transitive) to take (to ensure that one has something with them when they depart)
  6. (transitive) to take, to charge (to ask for or demand a certain amount of money for something) [with za (+ accusative) ‘for what’]
  7. (transitive) to take (to have temporarily, e.g. a room at a hotel)
  8. (transitive) to take (to hire a particular person for a job or task)
  9. (transitive) to take; to get (to gain from a particular source, e.g. a resource)
    wziąć pomysł ― to get an idea
  10. (transitive) to take, to take away (to deprive of) [with dative ‘from whom’]
    Synonym: zabrać
  11. (transitive) to take (to force someone to go somewhere, e.g. to the police)
  12. (transitive) to take (to ingest e.g. medicine)
  13. (transitive) to take (to conquer, to gain e.g. a city)
  14. (transitive, vulgar, of men) to take (to have sexual relations with a woman)
  15. (transitive, colloquial) to take (to pass on the road while driving)
    Synonym: wyprzedzić
  16. (transitive) to take (to consider someone or something to be something, especially unfairly) [with za (+ accusative) ‘for what’]
  17. (transitive) to get someone to do something (to convince someone to taking a particular action) [with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’]
  18. (transitive) to take; to get (as a light verb, to be the performer or subject of an action)
    wziąć prysznic ― to take a shower
    wziąć masaż ― to get a massage
  19. (transitive, of emotions, diseases, etc.) to take (to appear in someone's body or psyche)
  20. (transitive, fishing) to bite; to take (to attach to a hook on a rod; to be caught) [with na (+ accusative) ‘with what bait’]
  21. (transitive) to take on (to accept a position or function)
  22. (transitive) to take (to defeat someone or something)
  23. (transitive) to put on (to begin wearing some article of clothing) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what clothing’]
  24. (transitive, colloquial) to take (to interest, to grab someone's attention)
  25. (intransitive, of weather) to build up
  26. (transitive) to get (to understand somehow)
  27. (transitive) to take (to get hit)
    Synonym: dostać
  28. (transitive) to take after, to get from (to inherit some traits)
  29. (transitive) to take, to choose, to select
    Synonym: wybrać
  30. (reflexive with się) to take oneself (to grab oneself by something) [with pod (+ accusative) or za (+ accusative) ‘by what’]
  31. (reflexive with się) to take each other (to grab each other by something) [with pod (+ accusative) or w (+ accusative) or za (+ accusative) ‘by what’]
  32. (reflexive with się) to get to (to begin to do some activity) [with do (+ genitive) or (proscribed) za (+ accusative) ‘to what’]
    wziąć się do roboty ― to get to work
    wziąć ślub ― to get married
  33. (reflexive with się) to be convinced (to allow oneself to be convinced to doing something) [with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’]
  34. (reflexive with się, colloquial) to take on (to begin to deal intensively with matters related to a specific person) [with za (+ accusative) ‘whom’]
  35. (reflexive with się, colloquial) to come from (to have a source from)
  36. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be deceived
    Synonym: nabrać się
  37. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to get to (to arrive, to go to)
    Synonym: udać się
  38. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to appear, to show up
    Synonym: pojawić się

Conjugation

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Conjugation of wziąć pf
person singular plural
masculine feminine neuter virile nonvirile
infinitive wziąć
future tense 1st wezmę weźmiemy
2nd weźmiesz weźmiecie
3rd weźmie wezmą
impersonal weźmie się
past tense 1st wziąłem,
-(e)m wziął 		wzięłam,
-(e)m wzięła 		wzięłom,
-(e)m wzięło 		wzięliśmy,
-(e)śmy wzięli 		wzięłyśmy,
-(e)śmy wzięły
2nd wziąłeś,
-(e)ś wziął 		wzięłaś,
-(e)ś wzięła 		wzięłoś,
-(e)ś wzięło 		wzięliście,
-(e)ście wzięli 		wzięłyście,
-(e)ście wzięły
3rd wziął wzięła wzięło wzięli wzięły
impersonal wzięto
conditional 1st wziąłbym,
bym wziął 		wzięłabym,
bym wzięła 		wzięłobym,
bym wzięło 		wzięlibyśmy,
byśmy wzięli 		wzięłybyśmy,
byśmy wzięły
2nd wziąłbyś,
byś wziął 		wzięłabyś,
byś wzięła 		wzięłobyś,
byś wzięło 		wzięlibyście,
byście wzięli 		wzięłybyście,
byście wzięły
3rd wziąłby,
by wziął 		wzięłaby,
by wzięła 		wzięłoby,
by wzięło 		wzięliby,
by wzięli 		wzięłyby,
by wzięły
impersonal wzięto by
imperative 1st niech wezmę weźmy
2nd weź weźcie
3rd niech weźmie niech wezmą
passive adjectival participle wzięty wzięta wzięte wzięci wzięte
anterior adverbial participle wziąwszy
verbal noun wzięcie

The imperative form weźmij is obsolete.

Verb

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wziąć pf (imperfective brać)

  1. (intransitive, impersonal, colloquial) to get the urge, to get a hankering (to feel a strong need or want to do something to the point where one cannot help themself) [with accusative ‘subject’ and na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]

Conjugation

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Conjugation of wziąć
infinitive wziąć
future indicative weźmie
past indicative wzięło
conditional wzięłoby
by wzięło
imperative niech weźmie

Derived terms

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wziąć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 53 times in news, 21 times in essays, 55 times in fiction, and 83 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 224 times, making it the 247th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wziąć”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 719

Further reading

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  • wziąć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • wziąć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wziąć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wziąć się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “WZIĄĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2023 August 21
  • “WZIĄĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 05.12.2016
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wziąć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wziąć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wziąć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 1139
  • wziąć in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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