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correct word for 'leave' or 'leaving'

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chazaThreads: 49 Posts: 266 Joined: Dec 21, 09 ♂	Jan 31, 11, 09:30 #1
hi guys i am getting a bit bogged down with using the correct word for 'leave'. i have got pozostawiać opuscić opuszczać could i have a little guidance as to its usage please. and i have a problem with został, som,e say 'be' 'get' and 'stay' help needed thanks chaza

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Edited by: mafketis Jan 31, 11, 09:59 #2

beginning with baby steps

to leave a place : wyjść, pójść (both perfective) the second is commonly used in questions of the time 'has he left yet?'

to leave (something somewhere) : zostawić / zostawiać (perfective form first cause that's the base form)

to be left, to remain : pozostawiać (most always imperfective)

to leave (abandon) sth : opuścić / opuszczać (again perfective first)

zostać is either stay (in a place) zostać w domu (stay at home) or become (with instrumental) zostać żołnierzem (to become a soldier)

cinekThreads: 1 Posts: 264 Joined: Nov 16, 07 ♂	Edited by: cinek Jan 31, 11, 11:27 #3
mafketis: to be left, to remain : pozostawiać Shoudn't be "pozostawać" ? How much left? Ile (po)zostało? Cinek

chazaThreads: 49 Posts: 266 Joined: Dec 21, 09 ♂	Jan 31, 11, 11:31 #4
thanks for that explanation chaza

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09 ♂	Feb 8, 11, 21:35 #5
mafketis: zostać is either stay (in a place) zostać w domu (stay at home) or become (with instrumental) zostać żołnierzem (to become a soldier) there is also this construction - like say - został pochowany - he was burried (interred) but also został przysypany skałami - he got/was burried by/under rocks (say some caver/speleologist)

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