przedstawić
Appearance
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]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) [with 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) [with dative ‘to whom’]
- Synonym: zaprezentować
- (transitive) to introduce; to present, to put forward (to make a proposal) [with dative ‘to whom’]
- Synonym: zaproponować
- (transitive) to present; to feature, to picture (to show publicly) [with dative ‘to whom’]
- (transitive) to present; to feature, to picture (to describe someone or something in an artistic work) [with 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) [with 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) [with dative ‘to whom’ and jako (+ nominative) ‘as whom’]
- (reflexive with się) to present oneself (to become clear or understood for someone) [with dative ‘to whom’]
- (reflexive with się) to present oneself (to give a particular impression of oneself)
- (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) [with 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
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “przedstawić”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (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
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “przedstawić”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 75
- przedstawić in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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