działać

Meaning

1. to act (to perform specific activities aimed at achieving a specific goal or goals)
2. to work (to function correctly)
3. to work (to apply at a particular time or to a particular situation)
4. to work (to have a particular effect on)
5. to apply (to use a specific substance to cause a chemical reaction)
6. (obsolete) to churn butter
7. (obsolete) to create
8. to exercise; to be engaged in
9. to celebrate, to observe
10. to have, to throw, to hold (to be the host of i.e. a party)
11. to give, to grant, to submit
12. to inflict
13. to act, to behave
14. to cause; to bring about
15. to perform a deed (to do something i.e. good or bad)
16. to put together, to come up with
17. to cause
18. to change into, to transform (to give traits of something to something)
19. to consider as
20. to fulfill, to realize
21. to calculate (to perform calculations, to solve arithmetic tasks using an abacus)
22. to plead for something in court
23. to come about
24. to become, to pass as (to take on traits of a particular person)

Hyphenated as

dzia‧łać

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʑa.wat͡ɕ/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish działać. By surface analysis, dzieło + -ać.

Sentences

" Wobec tego musiałem działać i to działać szybko ."

“So I had to act and act quickly.”

Moje słuchawki przestały działać .

My headphones stopped working.