wraz

Wraz is a Polish adverb primarily used in the fixed expression wraz z, meaning "together with" or "along with." The phrase denotes accompaniment or participation in a shared action, typically introducing a person or object that accompanies the subject. In standard usage, wraz is almost always part of the two-word construction wraz z, rather than used alone.

In practice, wraz z is employed to express both physical accompaniment and concurrent occurrence. Examples include: Przybyłem wraz z żoną (I arrived together with my wife) and Dostawa przyszła wraz z opakowaniem (The delivery arrived along with the packaging). The expression is common in formal and semi-formal writing, journalism, and everyday speech when highlighting a companion or a set of accompanying items.

Etymology for wraz is not definitively established in contemporary references. It is generally treated as a fixed syntactic unit in modern Polish, with its meaning closely tied to the idea of accompaniment. Some discussions note that wraz is intimately connected with the sense of being together in time or space, though the common usage remains the phrasal form wraz z. It is distinct from razem, which more broadly means "together" in a general sense without emphasizing a specific accompanying partner.

Related terms include razem (together) as a general synonym in many contexts, and the prepositional phrase z used alone to indicate accompaniment. Wraz with its partner z forms a precise tool in Polish to mark mutual participation or co-occurrence in a sentence.