Dictionaries › Polish

postanowić

Pronunciation: /pɔ.staˈnɔ.vit͡ɕ/

“postanowić” is a Polish word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to decide, to resolve, to choose (to make a decision)
  2. to issue a resolution, ordinance, or ban
  3. to appoint, to name, to put into office
  4. to determine or manage someone's stay, life, or situation; to ensure someone's maintenance or position
  5. to marry, to give away (to cause to become married)
  6. to create (to cause to be)
  7. to command, to order
  8. to consider a matter, to form a belief about said matter
  9. to base
  10. to make; to do
  11. to build
  12. to unite, to make agree
  13. to place, to put
  14. to make stronger; to make permanent
  15. to refrain
  16. to keep one's word
  17. to settle; Further details are uncertain.
  18. to determine or manage one's own stay, life, or situation; to ensure one's own maintenance or position
  19. to be married, to be given away (to become married)
  20. to be appointed, to be named; to be managed

Etymology

From po- + stanowić. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Kashubian pòstanowic and Silesian postanowić.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “postanowić” there

More Polish words

About this dictionary

The Polish dictionary on Glottosphere has 73,682 entries with a page. Browse the Polish dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.