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przełożyć

Pronunciation: /pʂɛˈwɔ.ʐɘt͡ɕ/

“przełożyć” is a Polish word. Its 16 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to move around, to move over (to take someone or something and put it from one place to another)
  2. to rearrange (to change the order or arrangement of)
  3. to put through; to set across (to take something and it on the other side of something or over the top) [with przez (+ accusative) ‘through what’],
  4. to cut a deck of cards
  5. to interlay, to put between (to place something between layers of something)
  6. to reschedule (to change the planned time or date of something) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’], [with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’]
  7. to translate (to change spoken words or written text from one language to another or to provide a translation) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’],
  8. to translate (to change from one form or medium to another)
  9. to put before, to put ahead (to treat as more important than)
  10. to put before (to present)
  11. to explain, to justify
  12. to be reflected in (to have an impact)
  13. to translate (to be changed from one form or medium to another)
  14. to shift (to change one's position only slightly) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’],
  15. to stick (to hit on the back with a stick)
  16. synonym of skończyć (“to turn a certain age”)

Etymology

From prze- + łożyć. Sense 7 and sense 8 are semantic loans from Latin trānsferō.

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