widzieć

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vìděti. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /vid͡ʑʲɛt͡ɕʲ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /vid͡ʑʲɛt͡ɕʲ/

widzieć impf (frequentative widać)

1. to see (to have vision; to not be blind)
   1. to see (to understand)
   2. to see (to perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes)
   3. (of one's eyes) to see (to detect light)
   4. to see (to regard as) [with accusative ‘whom/what’, along with accusative or instrumental or jako (+ clause) ‘as whom/what’]
   5. to see (to experience, particularly hardship)
2. (reflexive with się or impersonal) to be seen
3. to look at
4. to see; to be able to claim; to notice
5. (reflexive with się) to seem (to appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as)
6. (reflexive with się) to please, to catch the eye (to be physically attractive or pleasing)
7. to know, to be familiar with

• Polish: widzieć, widzić (Żywiec)
• Silesian: widzieć

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “widzieć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “widzieć, widzieć się”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• widzić (Żywiec)

Inherited from Old Polish widzieć.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʑɛt͡ɕ/

• Audio 1; “widzieć”:

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• Audio 2; “widzieć się”:

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• Rhymes: -id͡ʑɛt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: wi‧dzieć

widzieć impf (perfective zobaczyć, indeterminate widywać)

1. (transitive) to see (to perceive with the eyes)
2. (intransitive) to see (to have vision; to not be blind)
3. (transitive) to see (to watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.)

   Synonym: oglądać

4. (transitive) to see (to meet, to visit)
5. (transitive) to see (to foresee, predict, or prophesy) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what’]
6. (transitive) to see (to realize, to come to understand)
7. (transitive) to see (to perceive some character traits within someone) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what/whom’]
8. (transitive) to see (to be of the opinion that someone would fill a role well) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what role’]
9. (transitive) used to get the listener's attention; (you) see
10. (transitive) used to get the listener's attention particularly to express disapproval; see?
11. (reflexive with się) to see oneself (to perceive oneself with one's eyes)
12. (reflexive with się) to see each other
13. (reflexive with się) to see (to meet with) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’]
14. (reflexive with się) to see oneself (to be of the opinion that oneself would fill a role well)
15. (reflexive with się, colloquial) to seem, to come across, to appear [with dative ‘to whom’]

    Synonyms: wydawać się, zdawać się

16. (reflexive with się, colloquial) to please, to catch the eye (to be physically attractive or pleasing) [with dative]

    Synonym: podobać się

17. (impersonal, Middle Polish) one can watch

    Synonym: widać

18. (impersonal, Middle Polish) one can see (one can perceive with the eyes)

    Synonym: widać

19. (impersonal, Middle Polish) one can get to know

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), widzieć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 36 times in essays, 153 times in fiction, and 244 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 488 times, making it the 91st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• widzieć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• widzieć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “widzieć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “WIDZIEĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 4 January 2013
• “WIDZIEĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 24 March 2022
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “widzieć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “widzieć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “widzieć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 554
• widzieć in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Inherited from Old Polish widzieć.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʑɛt͡ɕ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -id͡ʑɛt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: wi‧dzieć

widzieć impf (frequentative widować)

1. (transitive) to see (to perceive with the eyes)

• widzieć in silling.org