przypisujemy

Przypisujemy is the first-person plural present tense form of the Polish verb przypisywać, meaning to attribute, to ascribe, or to assign. The verb covers two main domains of use: attribution or credit (for example, assigning a property, result, or responsibility to a person or factor) and citation or sourcing in academic writing (indicating that a statement or data comes from a particular source).

In terms of morphology, przypisujemy corresponds to “we attribute” or “we assign.” Other present-tense forms include przypisujesz (you attribute) and przypisuje (he/she/it attributes). The imperfective character of the verb is contrasted with its perfective counterpart przypisać, which is used for a completed attribution. For future reference, one can say będziemy przypisywać (we will be attributing) or przypiszemy (we will attribute) depending on nuance. Past forms include przypisywaliśmy / przypisywałyśmy (we attributed).

Common uses include: przypisywanie odpowiedzialności lub winy; przykładowo: „Przypisuję ten błąd błędowi systemu” (I attribute this error to the system). In scholarly contexts, the phrase refers to indicating the source of a claim or data, e.g., „Autor przypisuje wyniki do wcześniejszych badań Jonesa” or „W tekście przypisujemy cytat do pierwotnego źródła.” Related nouns include przypis (footnote, note) and przypisy (footnotes or citations), which are distinct from the verb form but share the same etymological root.

Etymology broadly traces the word to the notion of writing down as a note or marking a statement with a credit or source, linking the act of attribution with notation.