przedstawić

From przed- +‎ stawić. Calque of German vorstellen or Ukrainian предста́вити (predstávyty).[1] First attested in the 17th century.[2]

• IPA^(key): /pʂɛtˈsta.vit͡ɕ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /pʂɛt͡sˈta.vit͡ɕ/, /pr̝ɛt͡sˈta.vit͡ɕ/

• Audio 1, przedstawić

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• Rhymes: -avit͡ɕ
• Syllabification: przed‧sta‧wić

przedstawić pf (imperfective przedstawiać)

1. (transitive) to introduce (to cause someone to be acquainted with someone else) [+dative = to whom]

   Synonym: zaprezentować

   Pani Leila przedstawiła Marcina swojej przyjaciółce, pani Minie. ― Ms. Leila introduced Marcin to her friend Ms. Mina.

2. (transitive) to introduce; to present, to put forward (to make something or someone known by announcement or recommendation) [+dative = to whom]

   Synonym: zaprezentować

3. (transitive) to introduce; to present, to put forward (to make a proposal) [+dative = to whom]

   Synonym: zaproponować

4. (transitive) to present; to feature, to picture (to show publicly) [+dative = to whom]
5. (transitive) to present; to feature, to picture (to describe someone or something in an artistic work) [+ w (locative) = in what]

   Synonym: pokazać

6. (transitive) to present; to feature, to picture (to take up some topic)
7. (transitive) to present, to put forward (to nominate someone as a candidate for something) [+ do (genitive) = for what]
8. (transitive) to present, to put forward (to become or appear to be someone or something, to give a particular appearance)
9. (transitive, obsolete) to represent (to act in someone's name)
10. (reflexive with się) to introduce oneself (to cause someone to be acquainted with oneself) [+dative = to whom] [+ jako (nominative) = as whom]
11. (reflexive with się) to present oneself (to become clear or understood for someone) [+dative = to whom]
12. (reflexive with się) to present oneself (to give a particular impression of oneself)

    Synonym: pokazać się

13. (reflexive with się, obsolete) to present oneself, to put oneself forward (to nominate oneself as a candidate for something)
14. (reflexive with sobie, literary) to picture (to create an image in one's mind of something unknown) [+accusative = whom/what]

    Synonyms: wyobrazić sobie, zwizualizować

• →? Belarusian: прадста́віць (pradstávicʹ)
• → Kashubian: przedstawic
• →? Russian: предста́вить (predstávitʹ)
• → Silesian: przedstawić
• →? Ukrainian: предста́вити (predstávyty)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), przedstawić is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 15 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 66 times, making it the 994th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

• przedstawić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• przedstawić się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• przedstawić sobie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• przedstawić in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “przedstawić”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “przedstawić”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “przedstawić”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 75
• przedstawić in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego