wyrywa

Wyrywa is the third-person singular present tense form of the Polish verb wyrywać. Wyrywać means to pull out, uproot, or tear out, and it is used for actions that involve removing something from its place with force. The verb can describe physical acts such as pulling weeds from a garden, tearing something loose, or uprooting plants. It can also be used metaphorically to indicate removing something by force or overcoming obstacles, though in everyday usage the physical sense is more common.

In terms of grammar, wyrywa is imperfective, indicating an ongoing, repeated, or habitual action. Its perfective counterpart is wyrwać, which denotes a single, completed act. Consequently, future forms of the action are expressed with the perfective wyrwać (for example, on wyrwie wyrwać ząb) while the present-action sense is conveyed with wyrywa (on wyrywa chwasty z ogrodu). The verb is transitive, requiring a direct object in sentences such as “On wyrywa chwasty z ogrodu.”

Related nominal forms include wyrywanie (the act of pulling out) and wyrwanie (a completed act of pulling out). The prefix wy- combined with the root rywać reflects a sense of removal or extraction. The term is common in everyday Polish, especially in contexts related to gardening, agriculture, and manual labor, but it also appears in literary and descriptive prose when depicting actions that involve pulling something away from its attachment to a surface or root.