trochę

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See also: troche and Troche

Old Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From trocha +‎ . First attested in 1463–1465.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adverb[edit]

trochę

  1. for a short time

Descendants[edit]

  • Polish: trochę
  • Silesian: trochã

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish trochę. By surface analysis, trocha (some, a small amount) +‎ (accusative suffix). For the adverbialization of the accusative, compare odrobinę, parę, or Hungarian egy kicsit.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɔ.xɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈtrɔ.xɛ̃/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔxɛ
  • Syllabification: tro‧chę

Particle[edit]

trochę (diminutive troszkę or troszeczkę or troszeńkę)

  1. kinda; slightly, somewhat
    Synonyms: nieco, po trochu, po trosze, dość, poniekąd
    Antonym: bardzo

Numeral[edit]

trochę

  1. a little, a bit of, some [+genitive]
    Synonyms: odrobinę, nieco
    Antonyms: dużo, wiele

Adverb[edit]

trochę (not comparable)

  1. a little (not much; for a short time)
    Synonyms: niewiele, krótko

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), trochę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 8 times in essays, 71 times in fiction, and 94 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 182 times, making it the 312th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “trochę”, 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 610

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