przebyta

Przebyta is a Polish feminine past participle used as an adjective derived from the verb przebywać, which means to stay, reside, or spend time in a place or situation. As an attributive participle, przebyta agrees with the noun it modifies in gender and number. In practice, przebyta denotes that the described state or event occurred in the past and is not ongoing.

The word is commonly found in contexts referring to past experiences or conditions, especially in medical or biographical language. For example, przebyta choroba means a disease that has been contracted in the past; przebyta operacja indicates a prior surgery. Other possible usages include przebyta podróż to describe a journey that has already taken place. While the form is most often seen with feminine nouns, the corresponding masculine and neuter forms are przebyty and przebyte, respectively, and adjectives agree with the noun in number and gender.

Etymology: przebyta is the feminine singular form of the past passive participle derived from the verb przebywać, following the standard Polish pattern of participles formed from verbs with adjectival suffixes. The sense conveyed is that a specific event or condition has been experienced in the past and is now completed.

Przebyta is therefore a concise linguistic tool for summarizing past experiences or conditions in Polish, especially in medical records, life histories, and formal descriptions. See also przebywać, choroba, operacja, podróż.