Czasowniki typu domyć, dobiec i ich francuskie odpowiedniki na Glosbe.com
Polish verbs with the do- prefix and their French equivalents on Glosbe.com

Author(s): Wanda Fijałkowska
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: word formation; verb; prefix; translation; equivalent
Summary/Abstract: Polish perfective verbs with the do- prefix are mostly divided according to the following criteria: approaching a certain boundary, finality, movement, performing an action to/on an object, and effectivity. We adopt approaching a boundary as the main criterion, applicable to all such verbs, and, following Witold Śmiech (1986), distinguish among them effective-cum-movement, effective and supplementary verbs. Their translation, as observed in the online dictionary Glosbe.com, is not based, as we initially presumed, on French verbs complemented by adverbs, but first of all on the more precise non-prefixed verbal equivalents, above all – perfective or terminative, in the further alternative – on using other verbs, including hyperonyms, on employing “reversed” verbs, verbs demanding the preposition jusqu’à, on referring to the context, and finally – on using participles and nouns.

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