przejść

• prześć, przejć, przeć, przeniść (Middle Polish)

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• Rhymes: -ɛjɕt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: przejść

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

przejść pf (imperfective przechodzić)

1. (intransitive) to go across, to cross (to go from one side on the surface of something to the other by foot) [with accusative ‘what’]
2. (intransitive) to go through, to cross (to go through the middle of something from one side to the other by foot) [with accusative ‘what’]
3. (intransitive) to cross, to pass by (to walk by something not paying attention to it) [with accusative ‘what’]
4. (intransitive) to go by (to pass someone on foot)
5. (intransitive) to move on; to pass, to move up from (to begin to be in a higher position or rank) [with accusative ‘what’; or with do (+ genitive) or na (+ accusative) ‘on to what’]
6. (intransitive) to cross (moving, to cover some distance)
7. (intransitive) to cross, to get across (to pass some barrier) [with przez (+ accusative) ‘what barrier’]
8. (intransitive) to cross (to be felt across one's body) [with dative ‘who (used in possessive constructions)’ and accusative ‘whom’]
9. (intransitive) to get to (to begin to focus on someone or something) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to whom/what’]
10. (intransitive) to switch (to change the place, manner, or conditions of performing an action) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’], [with do (+ genitive) or na (+ accusative) ‘on to what’]
11. (intransitive) to pass (to be accepted)
12. (intransitive) to pass (to end) [with dative ‘for whom’]
13. (intransitive) to pass (to become considered as or to become an element of) [with do (+ genitive) ‘(in)to what’]
14. (intransitive) to pass, to go through (to experience, to undergo) [with accusative or przez (+ accusative) ‘(through) what’]

    Synonym: przeżyć

15. (intransitive) to switch, to cross (to change into) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’], [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
16. (intransitive) to switch, to cross (to become a different person, i.e. a teacher) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from whom’], [with w (+ accusative) ‘(in)to whom’]
17. (intransitive) to cross; to span (i.e. of a path, to cover some amount of space)
18. (intransitive) to be filled with some scent [with instrumental ‘with what scent’]
19. (intransitive, literary) to surpass, to exceed, to pass (to be better than someone in some field) [with accusative ‘whom’]
20. (intransitive, of atmospheric phenomena or celestial bodies) to cross (to move across the sky)
21. (intransitive) to pass (to be passed along or sent)
22. (intransitive, vehicles) to go through

    Synonym: przejechać

23. (intransitive, archaic) to go over, to refresh (to remind oneself of previously learned knowledge) [with accusative ‘what’]
24. (reflexive with się) to walk around, to mosey

    Synonym: przespacerować się

25. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to leave, to go out

    Synonym: wyjść

26. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to go through, to skim (to quickly browse text)
27. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to spend some amount of time somewhere

    Synonym: przebyć

28. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to come, to arrive

    Synonym: przyjść

29. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to assault, to attack

    Synonym: napaść

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przejść is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 18 times in news, 12 times in essays, 21 times in fiction, and 19 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 770th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

przejść n

1. genitive plural of przejście

• przejść in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• przejść się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• przejść in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “przejść”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “PRZEJŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 23.02.2015
• “PRZEJŚĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 18.02.2009
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “przejść”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “przejść”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “przejść”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 101
• przejść in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego