mierzyć
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish mierzyć, from Proto-Slavic *měriti. By surface analysis, miara + -yć.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈmjɛ.ʐɘt͡ɕ/
Audio 1; “mierzyć”: (file) Audio 2; “mierzyć się”: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛʐɘt͡ɕ
- Syllabification: mie‧rzyć
Verb
editmierzyć impf (perfective zmierzyć or pomierzyć)
- (transitive) to measure (to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard)
- (intransitive) to measure (to be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement))
- (intransitive) to aim (to point or direct at) [with do (+ genitive) ‘at whom or what’]
- (intransitive, archaic) to head (to move in a specified direction) [with ku (+ dative) ‘to where’]
- (transitive) to try on clothes
- (reflexive with się) to measure oneself
- (reflexive with się) to measure one another
- (reflexive with się, archaic) to be measured
- (reflexive with się, archaic) to follow [with instrumental ‘what’] (to act according to)
- (reflexive with się) to compete, to contend [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with someone’]
- (reflexive with się) to face (to deal with, to confront)
- (reflexive with się, obsolete) to get one's claws out (to prepare to attack) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for whom’]
Conjugation
editDerived terms
editadjectives
adverb
nouns
suffix
verbs
- domierzyć pf, domierzać impf
- nadmierzyć pf, nadmierzać impf
- namierzyć pf, namierzać impf
- obmierzyć pf, obmierzać impf
- odmierzyć pf, odmierzać impf
- pomierzać pf
- przemierzyć pf, przemierzać impf
- przymierzyć pf, przymierzać impf
- rozmierzyć pf, rozmierzać impf
- sprzymierzyć pf, sprzymierzać impf
- wymierzyć pf, wymierzać impf
- zamierzyć pf, zamierzać impf
- zmierzyć pf, zmierzać impf
Further reading
edit- mierzyć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mierzyć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “mierzyć”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN
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