zdać

From z- +‎ dać.

• Audio 1; “zdać”:

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• Audio 2; “zdać się”:

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• Rhymes: -at͡ɕ
• Syllabification: zdać

zdać pf (imperfective zdawać)

1. (transitive) to pass (to receive a sufficient mark so as not to fail on a test) [with na (+ accusative) ‘what subject/department’]

   Synonyms: złożyć, zaliczyć

2. (transitive) to pass (to receive a sufficient mark so as to continue education in the next semester or year)
3. (transitive) to turn over, to hand over, to surrender (to officially transfer to someone i.e. an object or position) [with dative ‘to whom’]
4. (transitive) used as a light verb

   zdać meldunek ― to dispatch

   zdać raport/relację/sprawozdanie ― to report

5. (reflexive with się, literary) to refer (to rely on someone for something) [with na (+ accusative) ‘to whom’]

   Synonym: spuścić się

6. (reflexive with się, literary) to be good for (to be useful in a particular situation) [with do (+ genitive) or na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]

   Synonym: nadać się

7. (reflexive with się, literary) to seem, to appear (to give a particular impression) [with instrumental ‘as whom/what’ and dative ‘to whom’ and infinitive ‘to be/do’]

   Synonym: wydać się

8. (reflexive with się, Near Masovian) to match [with z (+ instrumental) ‘whom or what’]

   Synonym: dobrać się

• zdać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zdać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “zdać”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 249