badać

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bādàti. By surface analysis, bóść +‎ -ać. First attested in the second half of the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /badat͡ɕ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /badat͡ɕ/

badać impf (perfective zbadać)

1. to look for, to seek
2. to investigate
3. to consider, to ponder
4. (reflexive with się) to ask, to find out
5. (reflexive with się) to listen

• Polish: badać

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

Inherited from Old Polish badać, from Proto-Slavic *bādàti, from *bosti. By surface analysis, bóść +‎ -ać.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.dat͡ɕ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈba.dat͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -adat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: ba‧dać

badać impf (perfective zbadać)

1. (transitive, medicine) to test, to probe (to check the medical state of a patient or have one's own medical state checked)

   badać chorego/pacjenta ― to examine a patient

   badać ofiarę ― to examine a victim

   badać brzuch ― to check (someone's) stomach

   badać puls ― to check (someone's) pulse

   badać wzrok ― to check one's vision

   badać krew ― to test blood

2. (transitive) to explore, to research, to study (to find out more about a given phenomenon or object through specific means)

   badać dialekt ― to research a dialect

   badać faunę i florę ― to research flora and fauna

   badać galaktykę ― to study a galaxy

   badać hipotezę ― to examine/test a hypothesis

   badać okoliczności ― to examine/test one's surroundings

   badać problem ― to analyze/investigate a problem

   badać przyczyny ― to investigate the causes

   badać skutki (czegoś) ― to examine/study the effects (of something)

   badać sprawę ― to investigate/poke around (something)

   badać strukturę ― to study a structure

   badać właściwości (czegoś) ― to study the properties (of something)

3. (transitive) to study, to probe (to examine with one's senses)

   badać reakcję ― to gauge a reaction

   badać alkomatem ― to breathalyze

   badać językiem ― to give a taste test

   badać wzrokiem ― to inspect/examine (with one's eyes)

4. (reflexive with się, medicine) to be tested, to be probed, to be examined (to have one's own medical state checked)

badać impf

1. (transitive) to investigate, to explore (to ask in depth about something)

   badać świadka ― to examine/question a witness

2. (reflexive with się) to be check each other out (to get to know each other through observation)

• badać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• badać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “badać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
• “badać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
• Paweł Kupiszewski (17.02.2016), “BADAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Paweł Kupiszewski (17.02.2016), “BADAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “badać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “badać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “badać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 81
• badać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego