mam

//ˈmam//

Polishverbnoun

Grammatical form

mam is the first-person singular present form of mieć — “to have”.

mam is the second-person singular imperative form of mamić — “to tantalize, to tempt, to entice”.

mam is the genitive plural form of mama — “mum, mom, mother”.

1.to have
2.to be some age
3.used as a semantically weak verb with some nouns
4.to consider someone as something
5.to have (e.g. to have something (that is) cooked)
6.expresses obligation; to be supposed to must, to have to, to need to
7.denotes that something might not have happened despite earlier beliefs; to be supposed to must, to have to, to need to
8.to feel something
9.to fare (to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad)
10.to consider oneself
11.to behave
12.to appear, to bode
13.to be in relation to something
14.to address, to turn towards
15.to function
16.to be had
17.to have, to have sex with(colloquial)
18.creates a future in the past; would, was going to(formal)
19.to head somewhere(obsolete)

Inherited from Old Polish mieć.

Paradigm of mieć, with mam highlighted:

Infinitive:mieć

he/she/it	ma
they	mają

he/she/it

they

mają

present active:mający, mająca, mające, mający, mające, mając

present passive:miany, miana, miane, miani, miane