wylecz

Wylecz is a Polish verb meaning to cure or heal. It is the perfective counterpart to the imperfective leczyć and denotes the achievement of a complete cure. The infinitive form is wyleczyć, while the imperative forms include wylecz (2nd person singular), wyleczcie (2nd person plural), and wyleczmy (1st person plural). The noun derived from it is wyleczenie, referring to a cure or the process/result of healing.

In usage, wyleczyć is common in medical and everyday contexts. For example, a physician might say that a disease has been wyleczona, or that a patient needs to wyleczyć infekcję. The past tense has regular perfective forms such as wyleczyłem, wyleczył, wyleczyła, wyleczyli, depending on the subject. The passive construction choroba została wyleczona is also used to express that the illness was cured.

Nuances and related terms: wyleczyć implies a completed cure, as opposed to ongoing treatment described by leczyć. The noun wyleczenie denotes the result or act of curing. Other related verbs include uzdrowić (to heal in a somewhat literary or formal sense) and wyzdrowieć (to recover, become healthy). While wylecz can function as an imperative command, its use as a standalone title or slogan is less common and typically occurs in promotional or colloquial contexts.

Etymology and form: wyleczyć derives from the imperfective leczyć with the prefix wy-, which marks the formation of a perfective aspect in Polish. This prefixing reflects a shift from ongoing treatment to the completion of a cure.