leczy

Leczy is the third-person singular present tense form of the Polish verb leczyć, which means to heal or to cure. The infinitive is leczyć, and leczy forms part of the standard present tense conjugation with the stem lecz-: ja leczę, ty leczysz, on/ona/ono leczy, my leczymy, wy leczycie, oni/one leczą.

In usage, leczy is employed to describe medical treatment or healing performed by a subject. It is transitive and commonly takes a direct object such as pacjentów, rany, or choroby. Examples include: "Lekarz leczy pacjentów." (The doctor treats patients.) "Ona leczy rany." (She heals wounds.) The phrase "czas leczy rany" is a common figurative expression meaning that time heals wounds.

Etymology and related forms: leczyć belongs to the core Polish lexicon for health and medicine and has cognates in other Slavic languages, such as Russian лечить (lechat’), Czech léčit, and Ukrainian лікувати. These forms share a common semantic field related to healing and medical treatment. The noun form lecznie or leczenie denotes the process or act of treatment, and adjectives such as leczniczy describe something relating to healing.

See also: leczenie (treatment), lekarz (doctor), zdrowie (health). The verb leczyć and its forms are standard in formal and colloquial Polish when referring to medical care, healing, or metaphorical recovery.