Wygrywamy

Wygrywamy is a Polish verb form meaning “we win” or “we are winning.” It is the first person plural present tense of the imperfective verb wygrywać, which denotes ongoing, habitual, or general action rather than a single completed event.

Grammatical details: wygrywać is an imperfective verb, and its present tense forms are wygrywam, wygrywasz, wygrywa, wygrywamy, wygrywacie, wygrywają. The aspect distinction in Polish contrasts with the perfective alternative wygrać, whose forms express a completed win. In contexts describing current or repeated success, wygrywamy conveys an ongoing status or habitual victory; to express a single future win, one would typically use the perfective future of wygrać (we will win).

Usage and meaning: wygrywamy appears in sports reporting, commentary, and everyday speech to indicate that a team or individual is winning at the moment or has a pattern of victories. It can function as a straightforward statement, a slogan, or a chant by supporters. The phrase can also appear with prepositions to denote defeating an opponent, as in wygrywamy z drużyną X (we are beating/defeating the team X).

Etymology and cognates: the verb wygrywać derives with the prefix wy- from the imperfective root related to grać (to play) or to win, and it is contrasted with the perfective wygrać (to win). The form wygrywamy thus reflects ongoing action rather than a single, completed win.

See also: Polish verbs of imperfective vs perfective aspect; wygrywać in sports language; wygrać.