opisujemy

Opisujemy is a Polish verb form meaning “we describe.” It is the first-person plural present tense of the imperfective verb opisywać, which denotes describing or depicting in an ongoing, habitual, or repeated sense. The form highlights an action that is in progress or repeated over time rather than completed at a single moment.

Morphology and related forms: opisywać is an imperfective verb, so present tense forms include ja opisuję, ty opisujesz, on opisuje, my opisujemy, wy opisujecie, oni opisują. The imperfective aspect contrasts with the perfective opisać, whose present/future forms express a completed description or a single act of describing. For example, będziemy opisywać describes an ongoing future activity, while opiszemy describes a completed future action. The noun corresponding to the action is opis, meaning “description.”

Usage and contexts: opisujemy is commonly used in journalism, research, literature, and everyday speech to convey that a description is being given or elaborated. It can describe people, objects, processes, events, or settings, and often appears with direct objects such as wyniki (results), proces (process), or rzeczywistość (reality). The verb emphasizes detail, thoroughness, or narrative depiction, and it frequently appears in reports, analyses, and explanatory texts.

Examples: “Opisujemy nasze obserwacje w raporcie.” “Teraz opisujemy proces technologiczny.” In contrast, to indicate a completed description, one would use opisać in appropriate tense, as in “Opiszemy projekt jutro.”

Etymology and related terms: opisywać derives from the noun opis (description) with the typical verb-forming suffix -ować, sharing roots with related terms such as opis and opisowy.