wrócić

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vōrtìti. First attested in the 14th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /vrɔːt͡ɕʲit͡ɕʲ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /vrot͡ɕʲit͡ɕʲ/ === Verb === wrócić pf (imperfective wracać or wrócać) (reflexive with się, attested in Greater Poland, Masovia, Lesser Poland) to return, to go back (to physically return to a place or person) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what place’], [with ku (+ dative) ‘to whom/what’], [with na (+ accusative) ‘for whom/what’], [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’] (reflexive with się) to return, to go back (to go back in thought, narration, or argument) [with ku (+ dative) ‘to whom/what’] (reflexive with się, of phenomena) to return, to come back (to appear once again) (attested in Lesser Poland, Sieradz-Łęczyca, Greater Poland) to bring (back), to send (back) (to guide someone to a previous or different place) (attested in Masovia, Greater Poland, Lesser Poland) to return, to give back (to give something back to its original holder or owner) [with w (+ accusative possessive pronoun) ‘to whom’] (attested in Lesser Poland) to compensate for damage, to repay for good or bad; to fulfill an obligation [with za (+ accusative) ‘for what’ and instrumental ‘with what’] to return, to restore (to bring something back to an original or previous state) (reflexive with się) to return, to be restored (to be brought back to an original or previous state) (reflexive with się, attested in Masovia) to get back, to regain (to have once again) [with ku (+ dative) ‘what’] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: wrócić Silesian: wrōcić === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wrócić”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Mańczak, Witold (2017), “wrócić”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “wrócić (się)”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN Ewa Deptuchowa, et al., editors (2023), “wrócić się”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish wrócić. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ut͡ɕit͡ɕ Syllabification: wró‧cić === Verb === wrócić pf (imperfective wracać) (intransitive) to come back, to go back, to return (to come or go back) [with po (+ accusative) ‘for what’] Synonym: powrócić (intransitive) to come back, to go back, to return; to turn back (not having reached one's destination, to go back to one's starting point) (intransitive) to come back, to go back, to return (to reoccur in time) (intransitive) to come back, to go back, to return (to go back in thought, narration, or argument) (intransitive) to come back, to go back, to return (to begin engaging with something once again) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to whom/what’], [with na (+ accusative) or pod (+ accusative) ‘for what’] Synonym: powrócić (intransitive) to come back, to go back, to return (to become someone's property once again) [with do (+ genitive) or dative ‘to whom/what’] Synonym: powrócić (intransitive) to come back, to go back, to return (to regain some lost trait) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what’] Synonym: powrócić (transitive) to return (to cause someone to be engaged in something again or to be in a particular state, place in a hierarchy, arrangement or type of activity) [with dative ‘to whom’] Synonym: przywrócić (transitive) to return (to give something back to its original holder or owner) [with dative ‘to whom’] Synonym: zwrócić (transitive, colloquial) to turn back (to cause someone or something to stop moving in a particular direction and start moving in the opposite direction until it finds itself back where it was or was before) Synonym: zawrócić (reflexive with się, expressive) to come back, to return (to come or go back) [with po (+ accusative) ‘for what’] (reflexive with się) to come back, to return (to repeat in time) Synonym: powrócić (intransitive or reflexive with się) to be returned, to be given back [with dative ‘to whom’] Synonym: zwrócić się (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to rereign (to become ruler of again) (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to return, to go back (to go back in thought, narration, or argument) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wrócić is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 7 times in essays, 49 times in fiction, and 56 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 123 times, making it the 487th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “wrócić”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[12] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “wrócić”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[13] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wrócić”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “wrócić się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “WRÓCIĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 10.03.2016 “WRÓCIĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 18.02.2015 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “wrócić”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “wrócić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wrócić”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 725 wrócić in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego