podejść
“podejść” — to walk up to, to approach (on foot) in Polish. Verb, level A2. Walking up to someone or to a window: come up to me. Driving up takes one changed letter — and changes the transport. In a live sentence: “Podejdź do okienka i zapytaj” — Walk up to the window and ask. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Polish | podejść |
| Translation | to walk up to, to approach (on foot) |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Walking up to someone or to a window: come up to me. Driving up takes one changed letter — and changes the transport.
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Podejdź do okienka i zapytajWalk up to the window and ask
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to walk up to, to approach (on foot)” in Polish?
«podejść». In a live sentence: “Podejdź do okienka i zapytaj” — Walk up to the window and ask. Verb, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Walking up to someone or to a window: come up to me. Driving up takes one changed letter — and changes the transport. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.