# wchodzić
## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish wchodzić. By surface analysis, w- +‎ chodzić.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfxɔd͡ʑit͡ɕ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈfxɔd͡ʑit͡ɕ/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔd͡ʑit͡ɕ
* Syllabification: wcho‧dzić

### Verb

wchodzić impf (perfective wejść)
* (intransitive) to go in; to walk in, to enter (to go or come on foot into an enclosed or partially enclosed space)
    Synonym: włazić
    Proszę, wejdź! ― Please, come in!
* (intransitive) to go on, to climb (to go or come on foot onto the upper part of something or to a higher position)
    Synonym: włazić
    Antonym: złazić
* (intransitive) to go in, to enter (to arrive somewhere by any means of transportation)
* (intransitive) to go into (by extending in space, to cross the boundary of something and extend beyond it)
* (intransitive) to go in (to fit somewhere; to be the proper size for) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’], [with do (+ genitive) ‘(in)to what’]
* (intransitive) to sink in, to go in, to enter (to gradually go deeper into something) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
* (intransitive) to enter, to get into (to become a participant of something or engaged in something)
* (intransitive) to enter (to begin to exist in a particular state) [with w (+ accusative) ‘(into) what’]
* (intransitive) to go into, to enter (to become subject to a state, rule or action) [with do (+ genitive) or pod (+ accusative) or w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
* (intransitive) to log on (to begin to use some website or software) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what website or software’]
    Synonym: włazić
* (intransitive) to enter (to become part of a larger whole composed of a particular type of person or element) [with do (+ genitive) or w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
* (intransitive) to enter (to penetrate during sex) [with w (+ accusative) ‘whom’]
* (intransitive) to enter (to combine with some type of substance to then become part of some chemical process) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
* (intransitive, colloquial, of pain, cramps, etc.) to set in (to start to be felt somewhere)
* (intransitive, colloquial) to nab (to seize someone's material goods) [with na (+ accusative) ‘what’]
* (intransitive) to get in (to become involved in some kind of venture) [with w (+ accusative) ‘in what’]
* (intransitive) to go in, to step into (to place one's foot into i.e. a puddle)
* (intransitive) to walk into (to bump into or make contact with on foot)
* (intransitive) to enter (to conquer or gain some area or territory)
* (intransitive) to enter (while moving, to change one's manner of motion)
* (intransitive) to get into (to ponder deeply)
* (intransitive) to jut into (of objects; to occupy the space of something else)
* (intransitive, obsolete) to come in as income
* (intransitive, obsolete, of plants) to sprout (to begin growing from seeds)
* (intransitive, obsolete, of celestial objects) to rise (to begin to be seen in the sky)
    Synonym: wschodzić

#### Derived terms

* wchodzić do głowy impf, wejść do głowy pf
* wchodzić do rodziny impf, wejść do rodziny pf
* wchodzić do studia impf, wejść do studia pf
* wchodzić na afisz impf, wejść na afisz pf
* wchodzić na ambicję impf, wejść na ambicję pf
* wchodzić na głowę impf, wejść na głowę pf
* wchodzić na minę impf, wejść na minę pf
* wchodzić w buty impf, wejść w buty pf
* wchodzić w drogę impf, wejść w drogę pf
* wchodzić w grę impf, wejść w grę pf
* wchodzić w kompetencje impf, wejść w kompetencje pf
* wchodzić w krew impf, wejść w krew pf
* wchodzić w modę impf, wejść w modę pf
* wchodzić w rolę impf, wejść w rolę pf
* wchodzić w słowo impf, wejść w słowo pf
* wchodzić w życie impf, wejść w życie pf
* wchodzić z butami impf, wejść z butami pf

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wchodzić is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 6 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 68 times, making it the 955th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wchodzić”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 656

### Further reading

* wchodzić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* wchodzić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wchodzić”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* “WCHODZIĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 17.08.2021
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wchodzić”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wchodzić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wchodzić”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 486
* wchodzić in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego