trzymać
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verb
- to hold (to keep something in one's hand, fingers, teeth, etc., not letting go) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what’] [with na (+ locative) ‘on w…
- to hold, to keepto cause a person or animal to stay somewhere against their or its will
- to keepto place something somewhere so as to have it in that location for some period of time
- to keepto be the reason someone does not leave a place
- to stick with, to hang around withto eagerly keep contact with someone, support that person, and in turn receive support from that person
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Idioms you will actually hear
- trzymać kciukito keep your fingers crossedLiterally to hold your thumbs; Poles squeeze their thumbs inside their fists for luck: trzymam kciuki!