pójść

• póść (Przemyśl)

Inherited from Old Polish pójć. By surface analysis, po- +‎ iść. For the epenthetic ś, see iść.

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• Rhymes: -ujɕt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: pójść

pójść pf (imperfective iść)

1. (intransitive, of people or animals) to go; to walk
2. (intransitive) to go, to attend [with do (+ genitive) or na (+ accusative) ‘what’]
3. (intransitive) to go after, to follow (to imitate in one's actions or thoughts)
4. (intransitive, of vehicles) to go, to move
5. (intransitive, of letters, packages) to go (to move from sender to receiver)
6. (intransitive, of smells, etc.) to go; to spread
7. (intransitive, of lines, roads, etc.) to go, to lead (to connect two points in space)
8. (intransitive, of media) to go; to be published; to be shown
9. (intransitive, of events) to go (to take place in particular manner)

   Wszystko poszło zgodnie z planem. ― Everything went according to plan.

10. (intransitive, colloquial) to come along (to not cause difficulties for someone) [with dative ‘for whom’]
11. (intransitive, of machines, devices, etc.) to run (to operate as normal)
12. (intransitive, colloquial) to go to (to be for a particular goal) [with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’]
13. (intransitive, proscribed) to go; to be taken (to take place in a particular order)
14. (intransitive) to count, to number in (to measure a certain amount) [with w (+ accusative) ‘in the what’]
15. (intransitive) to go for (to decide on something in a given situation) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]
16. (intransitive, colloquial) to sell like hot cakes
17. (intransitive, impersonal) to mean, to be on about; to have in mind [with dative ‘who, i.e. the subject of the English sentence’ and o (+ accusative) ‘(about) who or what/what in mind’]
18. (intransitive, reflexive with sobie) to go, to leave

• The imperfective verb iść with corresponding perfective pójść is a unidirectional verb. Its multidirectional counterpart is chodzić.

pójść pf

1. (intransitive, colloquial) to go (to be destroyed or broken in a particular manner)
2. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) to take after (to inherit some trait) [with w (+ accusative) ‘after whom’]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pójść is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 13 times in essays, 66 times in fiction, and 104 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 192 times, making it the 292nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• pójść in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pójść in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “pość”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “PÓJŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21 November 2019
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “pójść”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pójść”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pójść”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 933
• pójść in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego