myśleć

• myślić (archaic)
• myszlić, myszleć (Middle Polish)

Inherited from Old Polish myślić with a shift of ić -> -eć through analogy of verbs like widzieć.^[1] By surface analysis, myśl +‎ -eć.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɘɕlɛt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: my‧śleć

myśleć impf (perfective pomyśleć)

1. (intransitive) to think (to ponder in one's head) [with o (+ locative) or nad (+ instrumental) ‘of/about something’]
2. (transitive) to think (to be of the opinion)
3. (intransitive) to think about (to take care of, to tend to; to keep in mind) [with o (+ locative) ‘about what/whom’]
4. (intransitive) to think about (to want to do, to intend) [with infinitive or żeby ‘of doing what’; or with o (+ locative) ‘of/about what’]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), myśleć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 21 times in essays, 108 times in fiction, and 246 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 386 times, making it the 129th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[2]

• myśleć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• myśleć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “myślić, myśleć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “MYŚLEĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 26.04.2016
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “myśleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “myśleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “myśleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1087
• myśleć in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “myśleć”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish myślić with a shift of ić -> -eć through analogy of verbs like widzieć. By surface analysis, myśl +‎ -eć.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ.ɕlɛt͡ɕ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪɕlɛt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: my‧śleć

myśleć impf (perfective pōmyśleć)

1. (intransitive) to think (to consider in one's head) [with ô (+ locative) ‘about what’]
2. (intransitive) to think about
3. (intransitive) to think (to be of the opinion)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• myslec in dykcjonorz.eu
• myśleć in silling.org