przedstawić
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See also: przedstawic
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From przed- + stawić. Calque of German vorstellen or Ukrainian предста́вити (predstávyty).[1] First attested in the 17th century.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /pʂɛtˈsta.vit͡ɕ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /pʂɛt͡sˈta.vit͡ɕ/, /pr̝ɛt͡sˈta.vit͡ɕ/
Audio 1, przedstawić: (file) Audio 2, przedstawić się: (file) - Rhymes: -avit͡ɕ
- Syllabification: przed‧sta‧wić
Verb[edit]
przedstawić pf (imperfective przedstawiać)
- (transitive) to introduce (to cause someone to be acquainted with someone else) [+dative = to whom]
- Synonym: zaprezentować
- Pani Leila przedstawiła Marcina swojej przyjaciółce, pani Minie. ― Ms. Leila introduced Marcin to her friend Ms. Mina.
- (transitive) to introduce; to present, to put forward (to make something or someone known by announcement or recommendation) [+dative = to whom]
- Synonym: zaprezentować
- (transitive) to introduce; to present, to put forward (to make a proposal) [+dative = to whom]
- Synonym: zaproponować
- (transitive) to present; to feature, to picture (to show publicly) [+dative = to whom]
- (transitive) to present; to feature, to picture (to describe someone or something in an artistic work) [+ w (locative) = in what]
- Synonym: pokazać
- (transitive) to present; to feature, to picture (to take up some topic)
- (transitive) to present, to put forward (to nominate someone as a candidate for something) [+ do (genitive) = for what]
- (transitive) to present, to put forward (to become or appear to be someone or something, to give a particular appearance)
- (transitive, obsolete) to represent (to act in someone's name)
- (reflexive with się) to introduce oneself (to cause someone to be acquainted with oneself) [+dative = to whom] [+ jako (nominative) = as whom]
- (reflexive with się) to present oneself (to become clear or understood for someone) [+dative = to whom]
- (reflexive with się) to present oneself (to give a particular impression of oneself)
- Synonym: pokazać się
- (reflexive with się, obsolete) to present oneself, to put oneself forward (to nominate oneself as a candidate for something)
- (reflexive with sobie, literary) to picture (to create an image in one's mind of something unknown) [+accusative = whom/what]
- Synonyms: wyobrazić sobie, zwizualizować
Conjugation[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
nouns
Descendants[edit]
- →? Belarusian: прадста́віць (pradstávicʹ)
- → Kashubian: przedstawic
- →? Russian: предста́вить (predstávitʹ)
- → Silesian: przedstawić
- →? Ukrainian: предста́вити (predstávyty)
Trivia[edit]
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przedstawić is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 15 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 66 times, making it the 994th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “przedstawiać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “przedstawić”, in Słownik języka polskiego[1]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “przedstawić”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 446
Further reading[edit]
- przedstawić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- przedstawić się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- przedstawić sobie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- przedstawić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “przedstawić”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “przedstawić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[3]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “przedstawić”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4] (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 75
- przedstawić in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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