przyjść

• przyść, przyści, przyć, przyjć (Middle Polish)

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

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• Rhymes: -ɘjɕt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: przyjść

przyjść pf (imperfective przychodzić)

1. (intransitive, of people) to come (to arrive by moving on foot)
   1. (intransitive, of vehicles) to come, to arrive
   2. (intransitive) to come (to arrive at a place to do the typical things one would do at that place, either once or for a while) [with infinitive ‘to do what’]
   3. (intransitive, of messages etc.) to come (to be delivered to the intended addressee or place)
   4. (intransitive, colloquial) to come (to arrive at a place to pick up or drop off passengers)
   5. (intransitive, obsolete) to reach a border or boundary in time
2. (intransitive) to get (to acquire a specific mental or physical condition) [with do (+ genitive) ‘(int) what’]

   przyjść do formy ― to get into shape

   przyjść do zdrowia ― to get healthy

   przyjść do równowagi ― to find one's balance

3. (intransitive, of events) to come (to start to take place)
   1. (intransitive, colloquial) to come next (to take place after something else)
4. (intransitive, of a desire or other phenomena) to take (to start to be felt by a person) [with dative ‘whom’]

   Synonym: nasunąć się

   Przyszła mi ochota na burger. ― I got a craving for a burger.

5. (intransitive) to come (to be able to be achieved) [with dative ‘to whom’ and z (+ genitive) ‘at what’]
6. (impersonal) to come to; to have to [with dative ‘subject’, along with infinitive or na (+ accusative) ‘to what’]

   Przyszło mi ci powiedzieć, że musimy zwrócić mu opłatę. ― I have to tell you that we gave to give him the money back.

   Przyszło jej na to, że musiała pójść tam sama. ― She had to go by herself.

7. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to come back, to return

   Synonym: wrócić

8. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to take up a challenge
9. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to join a group

   Synonyms: dołączyć się, przyłączyć się

10. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to come, to appear

    Synonyms: objawić się, pojawić się

    1. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to be born

       Synonym: urodzić się

11. (intransitive, Middle Polish) to equal (to result from arithmetic)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przyjść is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 4 times in essays, 54 times in fiction, and 162 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 234 times, making it the 234th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• przyjść in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• przyjść in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “przyjść”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Paweł Kupiszewski (12.06.2023), “PRZYJŚĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “przyjść”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “przyjść”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “przyjść”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 299