Przebiegajcy

Przebiegajacy (diacritics: przebiegający) is the present active participle of the Polish verb przebiegać, meaning to run past, run across, or pass by. In standard Polish, it denotes a subject that is performing the action of running in a given situation. The non-diacritic form przebiegajacy is commonly found in digital texts or environments where Polish diacritics are omitted.

Morphology and usage

The present participle is an adjective-like form and agrees with the noun it modifies in gender and number: przebiegający (masculine singular), przebiegająca (feminine singular), przebiegające (neuter singular), and corresponding plural forms. As an attributive modifier, it describes an agent who is actively running, for example: przebiegający ulicą mężczyzna (a man running along the street) or przebiegająca przez park kobieta (a woman running through the park). Predicative use of the participle is less common in everyday speech and tends to appear in descriptive, literary, or formal contexts.

Semantics

Przebiegający emphasizes the dynamic, ongoing aspect of the action—running at the moment or during a specific passage. It is distinct from related forms like biegnący (running) or przebiegać (to run past/through) and can carry nuances of direction, intensity, or proximity to what is being passed.

Related forms

Related words include przebiegać (to run past/through), biegać (to run), and przebiegacz (runner). The term should not be confused with przebiegłość, which means cunning or slyness; they share a root but belong to different meanings and registers.

See also: przebiegać, biegać, przebiegacz, present participle (in Polish grammar).