odpowiadać

== Old Polish == === Alternative forms === odpowiedać, otpowiadać, otpowiedać === Etymology === From od- + powiadać. First attested in 1387. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɔtpɔvʲadat͡ɕʲ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɔtpɔvʲadat͡ɕʲ/ === Verb === odpowiadać impf (perfective odpowiedzieć) (attested in Lesser Poland) to answer, to reply (to give a verbal response) [with k (+ dative) ‘to whom’; or with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’; or with przeciw (+ dative) ‘against what’] (law, attested in Masovia) to defend (to stand before court as the defendant) (attested in attested in Greater Poland) to make threats; to get back, to get revenge to speak; to announce; to tell about (attested in Lesser Poland) to suit (to be appropriate or apt for) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: odpowiadać Silesian: ôdpowiadać === References === Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “odpowiadać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish) B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “odpowiadać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Alternative forms === odpowiedać (Middle Polish) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish odpowiadać. By surface analysis, od- +‎ powiadać. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -adat͡ɕ Syllabification: od‧po‧wia‧dać === Verb === odpowiadać impf (perfective odpowiedzieć) (ambitransitive) to answer; to reply; to respond (to respond, either verbally or in written text) [with dative ‘to someone’ or na (+ accusative) ‘to what (that person said)’] Synonyms: odpierać, odrzekać, replikować (intransitive) to respond (to react to an action) [with na (+ accusative) ‘to what’] Synonym: reagować (intransitive) to answer; to reply; to respond (to give an answer in class to a teacher) [with z (+ genitive) ‘what question/subject’] (intransitive) to answer; to reply; to respond (to react to someone's action doing the same thing) Synonym: odwzajemniać (intransitive) to answer for; to answer to (to be responsible for something; to face the negative consequences of something; to be accountable before someone) [with przed (+ instrumental) ‘to whom’ and za (+ accusative) ‘for what’] (intransitive) to suit (to be proper or suitable) [with dative ‘someone’] Przedstawione warunki umowy mi nie odpowiadają. ― The presented terms of the agreement do not suit me. (intransitive) to cause, to explain, to be the reason for [with za (+ accusative) ‘for what’] (intransitive) to agree with, to match, to correspond [with dative ‘what’] (transitive, obsolete) to repeat, to say again Synonym: powtarzać (intransitive, Middle Polish, law) to defend (to stand before court as the defendant) (intransitive, Middle Polish) to threaten, to make threats; to get back, to get revenge (intransitive, Middle Polish) to charge of, to accuse Synonym: oskarżać (intransitive, Middle Polish) to speak up (to begin speaking) Synonym: odzywać się (intransitive, Middle Polish) to express loyalty or subservience (transitive, Middle Polish) to explain Synonyms: tłumaczyć, wyjaśniać (intransitive, Middle Polish) to declare war Synonym: wypowiadać wojnę (intransitive, Middle Polish) to strike back, to resist (to push back against an attack or assault) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), odpowiadać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 28 times in scientific texts, 13 times in news, 24 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 89 times, making it the 713th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === odpowiadać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN odpowiadać in Polish dictionaries at PWN Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “odpowiedać, odpowiadać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “ODPOWIEDAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 03.02.2009 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “odpowiadać”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “odpowiadać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “odpowiadać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 640 odpowiadać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego