pozostawać

== Polish == === Etymology === From po- + zostawać. First attested in 1564. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -avat͡ɕ Syllabification: po‧zo‧sta‧wać === Verb === pozostawać impf (perfective pozostać) (intransitive or reflexive with się, literary or colloquial) to stay, to remain (to not leave) Synonyms: ostawać, przyzostawać się, zostawać (się) (intransitive, literary) to remain, to be left (to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off) [with dative ‘for whom’] Synonym: zostawać (intransitive) to remain (to be available or seen after someone's death) [with dative ‘for whom’ and po (+ locative) ‘after whose death’] Synonym: zostawać (intransitive or reflexive with się, literary or colloquial) to remain (to not lose traits or stop being in a particular situation) [with instrumental ‘whom/what’] (reflexive with się, colloquial) to find oneself in a situation due to one's own's action Synonym: zostawać ==== Usage notes ==== When used intransitively, this term is literary. When used reflexively, this term is colloquial. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Trivia ==== According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pozostawać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 35 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 9 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 73 times, making it the 885th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === Verb === pozostawać pf (intransitive, colloquial, of multiple people or things) to become [with instrumental ‘whom/what’] ==== Conjugation ==== === References === === Further reading === “pozostawać”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “pozostawać się”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “pozostawać”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish) Paweł Kupiszewski (16.07.2020), “POZOSTAWAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century] Paweł Kupiszewski (16.07.2020), “POZOSTAWAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century] Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “pozostawać”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pozostawać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pozostawać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 918 pozostawać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego