postanowić

From po- + stanowić.^[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.^[3] Compare Kashubian pòstanowic and Silesian postanowić.

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• Rhymes: -ɔvit͡ɕ
• Syllabification: po‧sta‧no‧wić

postanowić pf (imperfective postanawiać)

1. (transitive) to decide, to resolve, to choose (to make a decision) [with infinitive ‘to do what’; or with o (+ locative) ‘on what’]

   Synonym: zdecydować

2. (transitive, obsolete) to issue a resolution, ordinance, or ban
3. (transitive, obsolete) to appoint, to name, to put into office

   Synonyms: powołać, wyznaczyć

4. (transitive, obsolete) to determine or manage someone's stay, life, or situation; to ensure someone's maintenance or position
5. (transitive, obsolete) to marry, to give away (to cause to become married)
6. (transitive, obsolete) to create (to cause to be)

   Synonym: stworzyć

7. (transitive, Middle Polish) to command, to order

   Synonym: rozkazać

8. (transitive, Middle Polish) to consider a matter, to form a belief about said matter
9. (transitive, Middle Polish) to base

   Synonym: oprzeć

10. (transitive, Middle Polish) to make; to do

    Synonym: uczynić

11. (transitive, Middle Polish) to build

    Synonym: zbudować

12. (transitive, Middle Polish) to unite, to make agree
13. (transitive, Middle Polish) to place, to put

    Synonym: umieścić

14. (transitive, Middle Polish) to make stronger; to make permanent

    Synonym: umocnić

15. (transitive, Middle Polish) to refrain

    Synonym: pohamować

16. (transitive, Middle Polish, biblical) to keep one's word
17. (Middle Polish) to settle; Further details are uncertain.
    • 1564, J. Mączyński, Lexicon‎^[2], page 310b:

      Componere et transigere, Vmówić y poſtánowić.

      [Componere et transigere, Umówić y postanowić.]

18. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to determine or manage one's own stay, life, or situation; to ensure one's own maintenance or position
19. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be married, to be given away (to become married)
20. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be appointed, to be named; to be managed
21. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be issued
22. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be decided, to be resolved, to be chosen
23. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to become

    Synonyms: stać się, zostać

24. (reflexive with się, obsolete, hunting, of a dog) to be trained; to learn
25. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to calm down

    Synonym: uspokoić się

26. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to reside, to settle down
27. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to show oneself; to appear
28. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to become stronger, to become more intense

    Synonym: umocnić się

29. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to be prepared

    Synonym: przygotować się

30. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish, of a liquid) to settle

    Synonym: ustać się

31. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to reach an agreement
32. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to be passed on for general observance
33. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to be brought to a good state
34. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to be agreed upon

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), postanowić is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 24 times in news, 2 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 66 times, making it the 992nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[4]

• postanowić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• postanowić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “POSTANOWIĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 16.06.2016
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “postanowić”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “postanowić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “postanowić”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 759
• postanowić in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego