No. 12,929 in Polish
obwiniać
To accuse or blame.
In a sentence
Nie powinieneś obwiniać innych za swoje błędy.
You shouldn't blame others for your own mistakes.
Here, 'obwiniać' is used in the context of assigning blame or responsibility for an error to other people.
Marcin zwykle obwinia siebie, gdy coś pójdzie nie tak.
Marcin usually blames himself when something goes wrong.
This usage illustrates 'obwiniać' in the reflexive sense, where the subject is attributing fault to himself.
Nie zamierzam cię obwiniać, ponieważ wiem, że nie była to twoja wina.
I'm not going to blame you, because I know it wasn't your fault.
In this sentence, 'obwiniać' is used to express the abstention from assigning blame to someone.
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