Podgrzewam

Podgrzewam is the first-person singular present tense form of the Polish verb podgrzewać, meaning to heat up or warm up something. The prefix pod- combined with the root grzewać conveys the idea of increasing temperature of an object from its current state.

In everyday use, podgrzewam is most commonly employed in cooking contexts, describing the act of warming food or beverages. Examples include podgrzewam zupę (I am reheating the soup) or podgrzewam kawę (I am warming up the coffee). The verb can also appear in figurative expressions, such as podgrzewanie atmosfery, meaning to stoke or intensify mood, tension, or controversy.

Grammatically, podgrzewam is the imperfective form, emphasizing the ongoing process. The corresponding perfective form is podgrzać, which refers to completing the heating action; in the first person future you would say podgrzeję (I will heat up). The noun forms include podgrzewanie (the act of heating up) and podgrzewač (the device used to heat), though in practice devices are often specified (mikrofalówka, kuchenka) rather than using a generic term.

Overall, podgrzewam denotes actively warming something at the moment of speaking and is widely understood in both culinary and metaphorical contexts within Polish.