# postanowić
## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔ.staˈnɔ.vit͡ɕ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /pɔ.staˈnɔ.vit͡ɕ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔvit͡ɕ
* Syllabification: po‧sta‧no‧wić

### Verb

postanowić pf (imperfective postanawiać)
* (transitive) to decide, to resolve, to choose (to make a decision) [with infinitive ‘to do what’; or with o (+ locative) ‘on what’]
    Synonym: zdecydować
* (transitive, obsolete) to issue a resolution, ordinance, or ban
* (transitive, obsolete) to appoint, to name, to put into office
    Synonyms: powołać, wyznaczyć
* (transitive, obsolete) to determine or manage someone's stay, life, or situation; to ensure someone's maintenance or position
* (transitive, obsolete) to marry, to give away (to cause to become married)
* (transitive, obsolete) to create (to cause to be)
    Synonym: stworzyć
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to command, to order
    Synonym: rozkazać
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to consider a matter, to form a belief about said matter
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to base
    Synonym: oprzeć
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to make; to do
    Synonym: uczynić
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to build
    Synonym: zbudować
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to unite, to make agree
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to place, to put
    Synonym: umieścić
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to make stronger; to make permanent
    Synonym: umocnić
* (transitive, Middle Polish) to refrain
    Synonym: pohamować
* (transitive, Middle Polish, biblical) to keep one's word
* (Middle Polish) to settle; Further details are uncertain.
** 1564, J. Mączyński, Lexicon‎, page 310b:Componere et transigere, Vmówić y poſtánowić.[Componere et transigere, Umówić y postanowić.]
* (reflexive with się, obsolete) to determine or manage one's own stay, life, or situation; to ensure one's own maintenance or position
* (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be married, to be given away (to become married)
* (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be appointed, to be named; to be managed
* (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be issued
* (reflexive with się, obsolete) to be decided, to be resolved, to be chosen
* (reflexive with się, obsolete) to become
    Synonyms: stać się, zostać
* (reflexive with się, obsolete, hunting, of a dog) to be trained; to learn
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to calm down
    Synonym: uspokoić się
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to reside, to settle down
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to show oneself; to appear
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to become stronger, to become more intense
    Synonym: umocnić się
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to be prepared
    Synonym: przygotować się
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish, of a liquid) to settle
    Synonym: ustać się
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to reach an agreement
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to be passed on for general observance
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to be brought to a good state
* (reflexive with się, Middle Polish) to be agreed upon

#### Derived terms

* postanowienie

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), postanowić is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 24 times in news, 2 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 66 times, making it the 992nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “stanowić”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “postanowić”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “postanowić”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 411

### Further reading

* postanowić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* postanowić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “postanowić”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “postanowić się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* “POSTANOWIĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 16.06.2016
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “postanowić”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “postanowić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “postanowić”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 759
* postanowić in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego