Jeden czasownik: CHODZIĆ
The same prefixes on foot. Polish will not let you blur walking and driving, and the pair chodzić/iść is where that starts.
pójść
verb · perfective
- EN
- to go (on foot), to set off
- RU
- пойти
Pójdę po chleb.
I'll go and get bread.
Iść is this one journey now; chodzić is going repeatedly or in general. Russian splits идти and ходить the same way, so the machinery is already familiar.
przyjść
verb · perfective
- EN
- to come, to arrive on foot
- RU
- прийти
Przyjdź o ósmej.
Come at eight.
Compare przyjechać: same przy-, same arrival, different means of getting there. Using the vehicle verb to walk round a corner is instantly odd.
wyjść
verb · perfective
- EN
- to go out, to leave
- RU
- выйти
Wyszedł na chwilę.
He's stepped out for a moment.
Also 'to turn out': wyszło dobrze, it turned out well. And wychodzi na to, że — it appears that — which is pure spoken Polish.
dojść
verb · perfective
- EN
- to reach on foot; to come to (a conclusion)
- RU
- дойти
Doszliśmy do wniosku, że to się nie opłaca.
We came to the conclusion that it isn't worth it.
The literal walking sense, and the collocation dojść do wniosku you already met. The prefix does the same job in both.
odejść
verb · perfective
- EN
- to walk away; to leave a job or a person
- RU
- уйти, отойти
Odszedł z firmy w zeszłym roku.
He left the company last year.
od- moves away from. Of a person it is the standard, slightly formal word for resigning — and, in an obituary, for dying.
zejść
verb · perfective
- EN
- to go down; to get out of the way
- RU
- сойти, спуститься
Zejdź na dół, kolacja gotowa.
Come downstairs, dinner's ready.
z- comes down or off, as in zjechać. Zejść się means to meet up, which is two people coming down to the same place.
przejść
verb · perfective
- EN
- to cross; to pass; to get through
- RU
- перейти, пройти
Przejdźmy do następnego punktu.
Let's move on to the next point.
Crossing a street, and moving on in a meeting. Przejść na ty is to switch to first names, which is a real social threshold in Poland.
wejść
verb · perfective
- EN
- to enter, to go in
- RU
- войти
Wejdź, drzwi są otwarte.
Come in, the door's open.
w- is into, as in wjechać. Wejście is an entrance and wyjście an exit — two signs you will read every day.
obejść się
verb · reflexive, perfective, + bez + gen.
- EN
- to do without
- RU
- обойтись (без чего-то)
Obejdziemy się bez samochodu.
We'll manage without a car.
o- goes around — around the lack of the thing. Takes bez plus the genitive, exactly as Russian does.
nadchodzić
verb · imperfective
- EN
- to approach, to be coming
- RU
- приближаться, наступать
Nadchodzi burza.
A storm is coming.
Used of weather, seasons and deadlines rather than people. Nadchodzący tydzień is the week ahead.
Drill these ten · earlier morning · later morning
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