kombinować
Polish
editEtymology
editAdapted borrowing of French combiner + -ować.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editkombinować impf (perfective skombinować)
- (transitive) to combine (to bring two or more things or activities together)
- (transitive, colloquial) to rustle up, to wangle (to forage for, or to quickly prepare, something)
- (transitive, colloquial) to figure out, to infer (to come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce)
Verb
editkombinować impf (perfective wykombinować)
- (transitive, colloquial) to get creative, to finagle, to fainaigue, to wangle, to weasel (to try to resolve a problem with unusual ways)
- Józek kombinował, jak wykorzystać swój stary toster, i przerobił go na grzejnik. ― Józek got clever with his old toaster, and he turned it into a heater.
- (transitive, colloquial) to pull, to get up to, to cheat, to trick, to scheme (to do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker)
- Co ty tam znowu kombinujesz? ― What are you trying to pull there again?
Conjugation
editFurther reading
edit- kombinować in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kombinować in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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