najechać
Polish
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editnajechać pf (imperfective najeżdżać)
- (transitive) to drive into, to run into (to collide with while driving) [with na (+ accusative) ‘whom/what’]
- Synonym: wjechać
- Pijany mężczyzna najechał na przechodzącą przez pasy matkę z dzieckiem. ― A drunken man ran into a mother and child crossing the street.
- (transitive, military) to invade, to raid to assail, to encroach (to enter by force, usually in order to conquer) [with accusative ‘whom/what’ or na (+ accusative) ‘whom/what’]
- Synonym: napaść
- Hypernym: zaatakować
- Rosja najechała Ukrainę po uprzednim zainscenizowaniu fałszywych prowokacji. ― Russia invaded Ukraine after staging false provocations.
- (transitive, colloquial) to come down on, to go off, to snap, to bite the head off (to severely berate someone; to attack someone verbally) [with na (+ accusative) ‘whom’]
- Synonyms: napaść, naskoczyć, skoczyć, wskoczyć
- Hypernym: zaatakować
- Mój kumpel ostro na mnie najechał, gdy dowiedział się, że przespałem się z jego siostrą. ― My buddy came down hard on me when he found out that I had slept with his sister.
- (transitive) to cause something to come within range of some moving device [with instrumental ‘what’ and na (+ accusative) ‘onto whom/what’]
- Operator najechał kamerą na aktorów. ― The cameraman pointed the camera at the actors.
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editnajechać pf
- (intransitive or reflexive with się, impersonal) to arrive in large numbers or one by one by driving [with genitive]
- (reflexive with się, colloquial) to feel tired and to lose the desire to continue driving due to driving for too long
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Further reading
edit- najechać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- najechać się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- najechać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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