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stawać

Pronunciation: /ˈsta.vat͡ɕ/

“stawać” is a Polish word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to stand, to stand up (to take a vertical position on one's legs)
  2. to stand, to stand up (to be placed vertically somewhere)
  3. to stand, to stand up (to take on a vertical position)
  4. to stand (to be raised; to be built)
  5. to sit (to take a particular position in the sky)
  6. to stand (to arrive somewhere in some aim)
  7. to stop (to cease moving)
  8. to stop (to cease functioning)
  9. to stand; to be (to find oneself in some situation that requires action) [with przed (+ instrumental) ‘in front of what’],
  10. to stand (to take part in something that requires appearing at a specific place; i.e. on stage) [with do (+ genitive) ‘(on/in)to what’], [with na (+ locative) ‘on what’], [with przy (+ locative) ‘at what’],
  11. to arise; to come (to come to fruition)
  12. to come (i.e. of topics, issues, to be presented to a group of people for discussion)
  13. to freeze (to stop flowing from having the surface freeze over)
  14. to stand up (to become erect)
  15. to stand up (to resist)
  16. to concentrate (to gather into a single, more dense mass)
  17. to stop (to cease travelling or moving somewhere for some sort of stay)
  18. to suffice (to be enough, to be valuable enough)
  19. to happen (to take place at a particular time)
  20. to become (to change into, to start being)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish stawać. By surface analysis, stać + -wać. The forms staję etc. are suppletive from stajać (“to stand”).

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