Jeden czasownik: JECHAĆ
The same prefixes again, now purely spatial. Once you see them as directions rather than as vocabulary, the whole system opens.
pojechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to go, to travel (by vehicle)
- RU
- поехать
Pojechaliśmy nad morze na weekend.
We went to the seaside for the weekend.
The plain perfective. Polish insists on the difference between going on foot (iść) and going by vehicle — using the wrong one is instantly audible.
przyjechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to arrive
- RU
- приехать
Przyjadę o siódmej.
I'll arrive at seven.
przy- is arrival at a point, the same przy- that attaches in przypisać.
wyjechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to leave, to depart; to move abroad
- RU
- уехать
Wyjechał do Niemiec na stałe.
He's left for Germany for good.
wy- is out, as ever. Wyjechać on its own often implies emigration — the leaving that does not come back.
dojechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to reach, to get there
- RU
- доехать
Jak dojechać na dworzec?
How do I get to the station?
do- is up-to-a-limit. The single most useful question a newcomer asks, and it needs this verb.
odjechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to depart (of a vehicle)
- RU
- отъехать, отойти (о поезде)
Pociąg odjechał pięć minut temu.
The train left five minutes ago.
od- moves away from. Separately, odjechany in slang means wild or out-there, which is a long way from a timetable.
zajechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to pull up, to drive up to
- RU
- подъехать, заехать
Taksówka zajechała pod dom.
The taxi pulled up outside the house.
za- goes behind or up to. Zajechać komuś drogę is to cut somebody up, which is the same movement seen from the other car.
przejechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to drive across; to run over
- RU
- проехать; переехать (сбить)
Przejechaliśmy cały kraj w jeden dzień.
We drove across the whole country in a day.
prze- crosses. It also means to run something over, so the object of the sentence decides how alarming it is.
najechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to run into; to invade
- RU
- наехать; вторгнуться
Najechał na barierkę.
He ran into the barrier.
na- is onto. Also the historical word for an invasion, and — as in Russian — for verbally laying into someone.
wjechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to drive in, to enter
- RU
- въехать
Wjechaliśmy do tunelu.
We drove into the tunnel.
w- is into. The road sign zakaz wjazdu — no entry — is this verb's noun, and now you can read it.
zjechać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to drive down; to pull off
- RU
- съехать
Zjedź na pobocze i zatrzymaj się.
Pull over onto the verge and stop.
z- comes down or off. Zjazd is both a motorway exit and a downhill run.
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