Eskaluje

Eskaluje is the third-person singular present tense form of the Polish verb eskalować, which means to escalate or to increase in intensity. It is used to describe a process in which a situation, tension, conflict, or phenomenon grows in magnitude or seriousness over time. The term is common in journalism, politics, business reporting, and everyday speech.

Eskalować is a loanword borrowed from English escalate, formed in Polish with the suffix -ować to create the infinitive. The word entered Polish in the 20th century and is widely used across registers. Eskaluje, together with related forms such as eskaluję (I escalate) and eskalował (he escalated), can be combined with nouns to indicate escalation of those things (for example: eskaluje konflikt, eskaluje ceny, eskaluje napięcie).

Linguistic notes: Eskaluje is an inflected form indicating present tense; Polish verbs encode tense and aspect. The related noun eskalacja denotes the process of escalation; adjectives and verbs derived from it can be used in similar contexts.

See also: eskalacja, eskalować.