obejmujcie

Obejmujcie is a Polish verb form that belongs to the imperative mood. It is the second-person plural imperative of the verb obęjmować (to embrace, to surround, to encompass) and is used to command or request that a group of people perform the action. The form is imperfective, focusing on the action in a general or recurring sense rather than a completed act.

Morphology and usage context

The form is created from the stem obęjmuj- with the suffix -cie to mark the second-person plural imperative. It is typically used in direct address to multiple people, for example in instructions, social greetings, or coordinative actions. The imperfective aspect allows it to denote a general instruction to perform an embracing or surrounding action, as opposed to the perfective obejmijcie, which would emphasize a completed embrace or enclosure.

Semantic nuance

Besides its literal sense of physical hugging, obęjmować can also mean to encircle, surround, or encompass something in a figurative sense, such as embracing a group of people or ideas. In practical terms, obęjmujcie can function in contexts ranging from comforting someone to coordinating a team to secure or cover an area, depending on the object used with the verb.

Related forms

Obejmijcie is the perfective counterpart in the second-person plural, indicating a completed embrace or enclosure. Other related forms include obęjmować (infinitive, imperfective) and obęjmij (singular imperative). The verb as a whole is transitive and requires a direct object when used with a physical or metaphorical sense of embracing or surrounding.