dojść

• dojć, dość (Middle Polish)

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• Rhymes: -ɔjɕt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: dojść

Inherited from Old Polish dojć. By surface analysis, do- +‎ iść. For the insertion of ś, see iść.

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)
25. (intransitive, Western Lublin, Chmielnik) synonym of umrzeć

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:umierać

    On już pewnikiem dojdzie. ― He's definitely going to die.

dojść pf (imperfective dochodzić)

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

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.^[1]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dojść n

1. genitive plural of dojście

See dość.

dojść

1. (Northern Greater Poland) alternative form of dość

• 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
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “dojść”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 33