stawać
Pronunciation: /ˈsta.vat͡ɕ/
“stawać” is a Polish word. Its 20 meanings in English:
verb
- to stand, to stand up (to take a vertical position on one's legs)
- to stand, to stand up (to be placed vertically somewhere)
- to stand, to stand up (to take on a vertical position)
- to stand (to be raised; to be built)
- to sit (to take a particular position in the sky)
- to stand (to arrive somewhere in some aim)
- to stop (to cease moving)
- to stop (to cease functioning)
- to stand; to be (to find oneself in some situation that requires action) [with przed (+ instrumental) ‘in front of what’],
- 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’],
- to arise; to come (to come to fruition)
- to come (i.e. of topics, issues, to be presented to a group of people for discussion)
- to freeze (to stop flowing from having the surface freeze over)
- to stand up (to become erect)
- to stand up (to resist)
- to concentrate (to gather into a single, more dense mass)
- to stop (to cease travelling or moving somewhere for some sort of stay)
- to suffice (to be enough, to be valuable enough)
- to happen (to take place at a particular time)
- 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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