zawadzać
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Polish
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[edit]zawadzać impf (perfective zawadzić)
- (intransitive, usually imperfect) to be in the way, to cumber, to hamper, to obstruct [with dative ‘someone’]
- Synonyms: przeszkadzać, wadzić
- (intransitive or reflexive with się) to catch on [with o (+ accusative) ‘something’]
- 1925 (first published 1896), Stefan Żeromski, O żołnierzu tułaczu, J. Mortkowicz, chapter 1:
- ...[sierżant] zginał kark, żeby nie uszkodzić pompona przy kapeluszu, zawadzającego o stragarz powały niskiego pokoju.
- ...[the sergeant] had his head ducked in order to not damage the pompom on his hat, which kept getting caught on a joist of the ceiling of the low-ceilinged room.
- (intransitive) to stop briefly on a journey [with o (+ accusative) ‘in a place’]
- Synonym: zatrzymywać się
- (intransitive) to bring up (to mention) [with o (+ accusative) ‘something’]
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- Rhymes:Polish/ad͡zat͡ɕ
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