mieć

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьměti.

mieć impf

1. to have, to be in possession of
2. to have, to hold (to contain in one's hands)
3. to have (to host someone or be hosted)
4. (in collocation with some nouns) to do
5. to consider someone as something
6. to be supposed to, to have to
7. (with the passive participle) to have (e.g. to have something (that is) cooked)
8. (reflexive) to behave
9. (reflexive) to fare (to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Polish: mieć

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “mieć”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /mjɛt͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt͡ɕ
• Syllabification: mieć
• Homophone: miedź

Inherited from Old Polish mieć, from Proto-Slavic *jьměti.

mieć impf (frequentative miewać)

1. (transitive) to have

   Mam kota. ― I have a cat.

   Mam daleko do szkoły. ― It's a long way to school for me. (literally, “I have a long way to school.”)

2. (intransitive) to be (for an age)

   Mam 22 lata. ― I am 22 [years old]. (literally I have 22 years.)

3. (transitive) Used as a semantically weak verb with some nouns.
4. (transitive, colloquial) to have, to have sex with

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:uprawiać seks

5. (transitive) to consider someone as something [+ za (accusative)]
6. (with the passive participle) to have (e.g. to have something (that is) cooked)

   Mam cały wieczór zaplanowany. ― I have the whole evening planned.

7. (transitive, formal, in the past) Creates a future in the past; would, was going to
8. (auxiliary, intransitive) to be supposed to must, to have to, to need to

   Mamy iść na zakupy. ― We're supposed to to go shopping.

9. (intransitive) to feel something
10. (reflexive) to fare (to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad)
11. (reflexive) to consider oneself

    Masz się za lepszego? ― You think you're better than me?

12. (reflexive, obsolete) to head somewhere [+ ku (dative)] or [+ w (accusative)]
13. (reflexive, Middle Polish) to behave

    Synonym: zachowywać się

    Synonym: działać

14. (reflexive) to appear, to bode
15. (reflexive) to be in relation to something [+ do (genitive) = to what]
16. (reflexive, Middle Polish) to address, to turn towards
17. (reflexive, Middle Polish) to function
18. (reflexive, Middle Polish) to be had
19. (intransitive, impersonal, strictly in the negative) to be gone, to not be present, there is no

    Antonym: być

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mieć

1. second-person singular imperative of mieść

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), mieć is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 341 times in scientific texts, 207 times in news, 393 times in essays, 547 times in fiction, and 1103 times in plays, totaling 2591 times, making it the 17th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

• mieć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mieć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “mieć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2022
• “mieć się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2022
• “MIEĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 02.02.2022
• “MIEĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 20.01.2023
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “mieć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “mieć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “Mieć, Imieć, Mać, Miewać, Miewować, Miewywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 948
• M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Mieć on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl