No. 14,148 in Polish
pożegnać
To say goodbye.
In a sentence
Muszę pożegnać się z przyjacielem, który wyjeżdża.
I need to say goodbye to my friend who is leaving.
In this sentence, 'pożegnać' is used in the reflexive form 'pożegnać się', which directly means 'to say goodbye to someone'.
Postanowiłam pożegnać się z moją dotychczasową pracą i podjąć nową.
I decided to say goodbye to my current job and take on a new one.
Here, 'pożegnać się' is employed metaphorically to express leaving or quitting something, emphasizing the transition.
Pożegnaliśmy żołnierzy, którzy udali się na misję.
We bid farewell to the soldiers who went on a mission.
In this usage, 'pożegnaliśmy' is the past tense of 'pożegnać', indicating a formal or collective act of saying goodbye.
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