zawalić
Polish
Etymology
From za- + walić.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zaˈva.lit͡ɕ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -alit͡ɕ
- Syllabification: za‧wa‧lić
Verb
zawalić pf (imperfective zawalać)
- (transitive) to strew, to inundate, to encumber (cover or fill with a large amount of something)
- (transitive) to bar, to block
- Synonym: zatarasować
- (transitive, colloquial) to swamp, to snow under (overburden with e.g. work, responsibility)
- (transitive, colloquial) to fluff, to flub, to muck up
- (reflexive) to collapse, to buckle, to cave in
- (reflexive, colloquial) to go to the dogs, to go down the toilet, to flop
Conjugation
Conjugation of zawalić pf
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| person | masculine | feminine | neuter | virile | nonvirile | |
| infinitive | zawalić | |||||
| future tense | 1st | zawalę | zawalimy | |||
| 2nd | zawalisz | zawalicie | ||||
| 3rd | zawali | zawalą | ||||
| impersonal | zawali się | |||||
| past tense | 1st | zawaliłem | zawaliłam | zawaliliśmy | zawaliłyśmy | |
| 2nd | zawaliłeś | zawaliłaś | zawaliliście | zawaliłyście | ||
| 3rd | zawalił | zawaliła | zawaliło | zawalili | zawaliły | |
| impersonal | zawalono | |||||
| conditional | 1st | zawaliłbym | zawaliłabym | zawalilibyśmy | zawaliłybyśmy | |
| 2nd | zawaliłbyś | zawaliłabyś | zawalilibyście | zawaliłybyście | ||
| 3rd | zawaliłby | zawaliłaby | zawaliłoby | zawaliliby | zawaliłyby | |
| impersonal | zawalono by | |||||
| imperative | 1st | niech zawalę | zawalmy | |||
| 2nd | zawal | zawalcie | ||||
| 3rd | niech zawali | niech zawalą | ||||
| passive adjectival participle | zawalony | zawalona | zawalone | zawaleni | zawalone | |
| anterior adverbial participle | zawaliwszy | |||||
| verbal noun | zawalenie | |||||
Derived terms
noun
- zawał
Further reading
- zawalić in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zawalić in Polish dictionaries at PWN