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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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