Pozostawa

Pozostawa is not a standard Polish word in contemporary usage. It is typically encountered as a nonstandard, dialectal, or archaic variant related to the verb pozostawać, meaning to remain or to stay. In modern Polish, the lemma is pozostawać, with inflected forms such as pozostaję, pozostajesz, pozostaje; the imperfective infinitive is pozostawać, and past forms include pozostawałem, pozostawała. The perfective counterpart is zostać.

Etymology: The form is descended from the prefix po- attached to the root zostawać, itself related to zostawać and zostać. The exact historical development varies by dialect and period, and instances of pozostawa as a stand‑alone form are typically tied to older orthography or regional speech.

Usage: In standard modern Polish, pozostawa is generally not used as a separate lexical item and is largely confined to historical texts, dialectal writings, or as a typographical variant. For normal communication, writers use the corresponding forms of pozostawać (pozostaje, pozostawał, pozostawało, etc.) or the related perfective zostawać/ zostać depending on aspect and tense. Example: present tense would be "On pozostaje w mieście" (he remains in the city); past tense: "On pozostawał w mieście."

See also: pozostawać, zostawać, zostać, pozostawić.