miewać

[majlo]

In Polish there is this verb, miewac sie, which translates more or less into 'to have occasionally.' For example, if from to time you have a headache, you can say "Miewam <-> I occasionally have headaches."

Is there a similar verb in English which would render the same meaning?

 

[wildan1]

No special verb in English I can think of. But you can use the occasional in a sort of special way with any verb to express that, like this:

I suffer from the occasional headache
She goes on the occasional diet

 

[majlo]

Yeah, I know about the usage of occasional. As I see there's no English direct counterpart of this verb. As I thought actually; however, let's wait, maybe someone will have anything to add here.

 

[ewie]

Nope, I can't think of a verb in English which does that, Majlo. You'll probably have noticed that English is stuffed with adverbs of time (occasionally, normally, routinely, seldom, oftentimes, sporadically etc. etc. etc.) which allow us to pinpoint frequency with a fair degree of accuracy

 

[robin74]

In Polish there is this verb, miewac sie, which translates more or less into 'to have occasionally.'

It's not reflexive.
What you're asking about is miewać.
Miewać się means something different and would translate to to be (as in "Jak się miewasz?" meaning more or less "How are you?")

 

[Thomas1]

If you use it in the past you can express it using the construction used to, which I think can render pretty well the nuance.

Tom

 

[majlo]

It's not reflexive.
What you're asking about is miewać.
Miewać się means something different and would translate to to be (as in "Jak się miewasz?" meaning more or less "How are you?")

Yep, I just mistakenly added the "sie." I obviously meant "miewac."