wziąć

• wźwiąć, źwiąć

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъzęti. First attested in 1389. By surface analysis, wz- +‎ jąć.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /vʑɑ̃t͡ɕʲ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /vʑɑ̃t͡ɕʲ/

wziąć pf

1. to take (to get into one's hands)
2. (of liquids) to draw, to scoop
3. (of foods, medicines, etc.) to take, to ingest
4. to place, to put

   Synonym: położyć

5. to take along (to take with oneself)
6. to remove (to cause the absence of by taking)
7. to take, to borrow
8. to free from captivity or enslavement
9. to take away (to deprive someone of something)
10. to occupy, to appropriate property
11. to seize in damages for pledge, to secure claims
12. to charge (to take a certain amount of money for something)
13. to take into captivity or enslavement
    1. to be forced into a marriage
14. to stay in harm's way
15. to get back, to take back, to regain
    1. to have a debt paid back, to be paid back
16. to get, to receive, to gain
    1. to receive as a dowry
17. to inherit, to receive upon someone's death
18. to accept, to receive, to take a gift or donation
19. to be rewarded for contributions or punished for misdeeds
20. to use, to apply
21. to admit, to agree; to not reject
22. to take in, to make a companion or participant in some activity, to let into company
23. to conscript someone into helping
24. to choose, to select, to pick out
25. to marry, to take as a spouse
26. to take responsibility for
27. to host, to give hospitality, to have over
28. to defend
29. (of a title, position, honor, etc.) to take on, to commit to, to assume
30. to stock up; to use a resource
31. to draw; to take (a conclusion, lesson, proof, etc.)
32. to contain
33. to begin, to start, to initiate
34. (reflexive with się) to get to something, to begin a task [with za (+ accusative) ‘what’]
35. (reflexive with się) to appear, to show up
36. (reflexive with się) to begin, to start, to initiate
37. (reflexive with się) to speak up for, to defend [with o (+ accusative) ‘what’]
38. (reflexive with się) to appeal to a court
39. (reflexive with się) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. to take possession of something [with w (+ accusative) ‘what’]

• Polish: wziąć, wziąść (nonstandard, proscribed)
• Silesian: wziōńś

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wziąć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wziąć, wźwiąć, źwiąć, wziąć się”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “wziąć”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

• wziąść (nonstandard, proscribed)

Inherited from Old Polish wziąć. By surface analysis, wz- +‎ jąć.

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• Rhymes: -ɔɲt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: wziąć

wziąć pf (imperfective brać)

1. (transitive) to take (to grab with the hands) [with instrumental ‘with what’; or with za (+ accusative) ‘by what part’]
2. (transitive) to take (grabbing with one's hands, to place somewhere)
3. (transitive) to take in (to agree to take care of)
4. (transitive) to take (to allow to join)
5. (transitive) to take (to ensure that one has something with them when they depart)
6. (transitive) to take, to charge (to ask for or demand a certain amount of money for something) [with za (+ accusative) ‘for what’]
7. (transitive) to take (to have temporarily, e.g. a room at a hotel)
8. (transitive) to take (to hire a particular person for a job or task)
9. (transitive) to take; to get (to gain from a particular source, e.g. a resource)

   wziąć pomysł ― to get an idea

10. (transitive) to take, to take away (to deprive of) [with dative ‘from whom’]

    Synonym: zabrać

11. (transitive) to take (to force someone to go somewhere, e.g. to the police)
12. (transitive) to take (to ingest e.g. medicine)
13. (transitive) to take (to conquer, to gain e.g. a city)
14. (transitive, vulgar, of men) to take (to have sexual relations with a woman)
15. (transitive, colloquial) to take (to pass on the road while driving)

    Synonym: wyprzedzić

16. (transitive) to take (to consider someone or something to be something, especially unfairly) [with za (+ accusative) ‘for what’]
17. (transitive) to get someone to do something (to convince someone to taking a particular action) [with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’]
18. (transitive) to take; to get (as a light verb, to be the performer or subject of an action)

    wziąć prysznic ― to take a shower

    wziąć masaż ― to get a massage

19. (transitive, of emotions, diseases, etc.) to take (to appear in someone's body or psyche)
20. (transitive, fishing) to bite; to take (to attach to a hook on a rod; to be caught) [with na (+ accusative) ‘with what bait’]
21. (transitive) to take on (to accept a position or function)
22. (transitive) to take (to defeat someone or something)
23. (transitive) to put on (to begin wearing some article of clothing) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what clothing’]
24. (transitive, colloquial) to take (to interest, to grab someone's attention)
25. (intransitive, of weather) to build up
26. (transitive) to get (to understand somehow)
27. (transitive) to take (to get hit)

    Synonym: dostać

28. (transitive) to take after, to get from (to inherit some traits)
29. (transitive) to take, to choose, to select

    Synonym: wybrać

30. (reflexive with się) to take oneself (to grab oneself by something) [with pod (+ accusative) or za (+ accusative) ‘by what’]
31. (reflexive with się) to take each other (to grab each other by something) [with pod (+ accusative) or w (+ accusative) or za (+ accusative) ‘by what’]
32. (reflexive with się) to get to (to begin to do some activity) [with do (+ genitive) or (proscribed) za (+ accusative) ‘to what’]

    wziąć się do roboty ― to get to work

    wziąć ślub ― to get married

33. (reflexive with się) to be convinced (to allow oneself to be convinced to doing something) [with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’]
34. (reflexive with się, colloquial) to take on (to begin to deal intensively with matters related to a specific person) [with za (+ accusative) ‘whom’]
35. (reflexive with się, colloquial) to come from (to have a source from)
36. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be deceived

    Synonym: nabrać się

37. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to get to (to arrive, to go to)

    Synonym: udać się

38. (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to appear, to show up

    Synonym: pojawić się

or obsolete:

wziąć pf (imperfective brać)

1. (intransitive, impersonal, colloquial) to get the urge, to get a hankering (to feel a strong need or want to do something to the point where one cannot help themself) [with accusative ‘subject’ and na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wziąć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 53 times in news, 21 times in essays, 55 times in fiction, and 83 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 224 times, making it the 247th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• wziąć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wziąć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wziąć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wziąć się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “WZIĄĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21 August 2023
• “WZIĄĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 05.12.2016
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “wziąć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “wziąć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wziąć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 1139
• wziąć in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego