swój

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See also: swoj and swōj

Kashubian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svojь.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈswoj/
  • Syllabification: swój

Pronoun[edit]

swój

  1. reflexive-possessive pronoun one's own; my, his, her, its, our, your, their

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “swòj”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego[2] (in Kashubian), page 205
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “swój”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[3], volume 2, page 1054
  • swój”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lower Sorbian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svojь.

Pronunciation[edit]

Determiner[edit]

swój

  1. one’s (own), my (own), your (own), his (own), her (own), its (own), our (own), their (own) (refers to the subject of the verb)

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “swój”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “swój”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Masurian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish swój.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈsfoj]
  • Syllabification: swój

Pronoun[edit]

swój

  1. reflexive-possessive pronoun one's own; my, his, her, its, our, your, their
    • 1954-1986, Kartoteka Słownika Gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur[4], volume 1997, number Strzał - Szczęście:
      ȯn set na urlop do sfojej zony sly oba bez las
      [ón sed na ûrlop do swojej zonÿ, słi oba bez las.]
      He went on holiday to his wife, they both walked through the forest.

Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svojь. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /sfɔːj/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /sfoj/

Pronoun[edit]

swój

  1. reflexive-possessive pronoun one's own; my, his, her, its, our, your, their

Declension[edit]

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • Masurian: swój
  • Polish: swój
  • Silesian: swōj

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish swój.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

swój

  1. reflexive-possessive pronoun one's own; my, his, her, its, our, your, their

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

phrase

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), swój is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 209 times in scientific texts, 210 times in news, 277 times in essays, 302 times in fiction, and 190 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1188 times, making it the 33rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “swój”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 571

Further reading[edit]

Upper Sorbian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svojь.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈswʊj/
  • Rhymes: -ʊj
  • Hyphenation: swój
  • Syllabification: swój

Determiner[edit]

swój

  1. one’s (own), my (own), his (own), her (own), its (own), our (own), your (own), their (own) (refers to the subject of the verb)

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]