Pogardzi

Pogardzi is a Polish verb form. It is the third-person singular future tense of the perfective verb pogardzić, which means to despise, scorn, or disdain. As a future form, pogardzi denotes a completed action of despising that will take place when spoken about in the third person.

The full future paradigm of pogardzić is: ja pogardzę, ty pogardzisz, on pogardzi, my pogardzimy, wy pogardzicie, oni pogardzą. Pogardzi is therefore not a standalone lexical item, but a conjugated form used to refer to a subject in the future. By contrast, the imperfective counterpart pogardzać has present tense forms such as ja pogardzam, ty pogardzasz, on pogardza, and its past tenses express ongoing or repeated despising.

Usage notes: Pogardzi is used in contexts describing a future act of contempt or disdain. It governs direct objects in Polish similarly to other transitive verbs, for example with pogardzić kimś (to despise someone) or pogardzić czymś (to spurn something). The word appears primarily in written or formal language, and is less common in everyday speech, where speakers may opt for synonyms or periphrastic constructions.

Etymology: Pogardzi derives from the Polish root pogarda, meaning contempt or disdain, with the perfective verb formation that yields a simple future tense in third person singular.

See also: pogarda, pogardzić, pogardzać.