przestawiać
Polish edit
Etymology edit
From przestawić + -ać.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
przestawiać impf (perfective przestawić)
- (transitive) to reorder (to place or put something in a different place)
- (transitive) to rearrange (to change the order or arrangement of something)
- Synonym: przekładać
- (transitive) to rearrange (to change the position of the elements of a device, or the way or scope of its work)
- (transitive, colloquial) to rearrange (to change the basis, premise, or fundamental direction of something)
- (transitive, colloquial) to rearrange (to build something differently, anew, in a different place, building; to rework something)
- (reflexive with się, colloquial) to switch (to undergo a rearrangement, i.e. a change in order or sequence)
- (reflexive with się, colloquial, of devices, mechanisms, or their parts) to be rearranged (to move from one place or position to another)
- (reflexive with się, colloquial) to shift gears (to move to a different type of activity in a particular field; to change the previous way of doing things) [+ na (accusative)]
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Further reading edit
- przestawiać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- przestawiać się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- przestawiać in Polish dictionaries at PWN