Pomówić usage

I'm reading this grammar book and came across this sentence:

"Jesteś moim studentem już od trzech lat. Możemy więc pomówić szczerze."

I checked the meaning of "pomówić" = slander, accuse.

The meaning doesn't fit. Could it be that the book is not using the word "pomówić" right or it has another meaning? If it does, I want to know.

Thanks.

Polish verbs have aspects: perfective and imperfective. Pomówić has indeed two meanings: to falsely accuse but also: to talk. So in this case, 'pomówić' is a perfective aspect of a verb "mówić" and it means the same as: porozmawiać.

We must therefore talk/speak honestly.


I haven't seen this definition of it, but basically pomówić means to have a talk, to speak.

thanks a lot :). So if i replaced "pomowic" with "porozmawiac", would the sentence still have made the same sense?

Yes it would.