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odkupić

//ɔtˈku.pit͡ɕ//
Polishverb

Definitions

  1. 1.
    to buy from someone else
    • Rada Miasta Krakowa zdecydowała, że odkupi od prywatnych właścicieli "Kossakówkę" - neogotycki dworek, dom rodzinny słynnej artystycznej familii Kossaków.

      Kraków's City Council has decided to buy "Kossakówka" - a neo-Gothic manor, the family home of the famous Kossak artistic family - from its private owners.

  2. 2.
    to buy back, to buy something one previously owned
  3. 3.
    to buy a replacement for something someone has lost
    • ...spuszczając lufę, spuściłem kurek, a tu "bach!" i trafiłem w piętę sierżanta, ustrzeliwszy całą i raniąc nogę, szczęściem nie naruszając kości. Poczciwy moskal zatuszował to wszystko, ale dwa tygodnie leżał w łóżku. Ojciec mój odkupił mu tylko buty.

      ...while lowering the gun barrel, I let its hammer fall, and bang! - I hit the sergeant's heel, shooting all the way through it and wounding his leg, but by good luck not reaching his bones. That kind Russian covered up all of this, but he lay in bed for two weeks. My father just bought him new shoes.

  4. 4.
    to pay for the freedom of, to free by paying a price, to ransom
    • Byli téż przedmiotem handlu w tym czasie i niewolnicy. Ci niewolnicy z jeńców wojennych, których gdy nikt z ich krewnych lub przyjaciół nie odkupił, mogli być zaprzedani.

      Slaves were also a trade good at that time. These slaves could be sold from among captives in war, when none of their relatives or friends had ransomed them.

  5. 5.
    to redeem, to save (someone) from their sins by one's own sacrifice
  6. 6.
    to make up for, to atone for (one's misdeeds or sins)

Synonyms & related words

Related words (4)

Etymology

From od- + kupić. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Latin redimō.

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