dochodzić

From do- +‎ chodzić.

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• Rhymes: -ɔd͡ʑit͡ɕ
• Syllabification: do‧cho‧dzić

dochodzić impf (perfective dojść)

1. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach, to get to (to get somewhere by foot)
   1. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach, to get to (of vehicles or air, etc.; to reach somewhere)
   2. (intransitive) to hit (of bullets, etc. to reach a target)
   3. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach, to get to (of information, etc.; to be found out)
   4. (intransitive) to arrive, to reach, to get to (sounds, visual stimulus, etc.; to be sensed)
2. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to move in a specific way to reach a point in space) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
3. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to arrive at an addressee) [with do (+ genitive) ‘whom’]
4. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (of sound etc.; to reach a specific place by spreading) [with accusative or do (+ genitive) ‘whom/what’]
5. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to join or be joined to an already existing group of people, phenomena or things) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
6. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to achieve a certain kind of trait or state) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
   1. (intransitive, colloquial) to finish (of foods, to finish cooking)
7. (intransitive) to get to, to make it to (to reach a particular point in a series) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
8. (intransitive) to reach, to get to (to achieve some state after trying) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
9. (intransitive) to come to (to be realized) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
10. (intransitive, sports) to approach (to make contact with the ball in order to make a throw or shot) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what ball’] (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
11. (intransitive) to catch up with [with accusative ‘whom/what’]

    Synonym: doganiać

12. (intransitive) to come to (to get something legally) [with genitive ‘what’]
13. (intransitive) to reach, to come to (to formulate a certain kind of thought on some basis) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]
14. (intransitive) to come to (to find out or reach some conclusion)
15. (intransitive) to get to (to be able to be used by people, i.e. of food)
16. (intransitive, colloquial) to come (to achieve orgasm)
17. (intransitive) to arrive at, to reach (to come to some border in space or time)
18. (intransitive) to reach (to come to some amount or number)
19. (intransitive) to come to (to be an addition to something)
20. (intransitive) to mature (of fruits, food, etc., to become ripe)

    Synonym: dojrzewać

21. (intransitive, colloquial, hunting) to get within shooting distance of the game
22. (intransitive, obsolete, hunting) to hit (to kill an animal)
23. (intransitive, obsolete) to match, to equal, to measure up to

    Synonym: dorównywać

24. (intransitive, obsolete) to go to the end of (to attend or go to something until the end of that thing)
25. (intransitive, Western Lublin, Chmielnik) synonym of umierać

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:umierać

dochodzić impf (perfective dojść)

1. (impersonal) to come to (to result in a particular negative situation) [with do (+ genitive) ‘what’]

• dochodzić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dochodzić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “dochodzić”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 191