czasem
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Polish
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Instrumental singular of czas. First attested in the 18th century.[1] Compare Kashubian czasã, Silesian czasym, and Slovincian czasã.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]czasem (not comparable)
- every now and then, from time to time, occasionally, sometimes
- Synonyms: co jakiś czas, czasami, nieraz, niekiedy
- sometimes (in one or another case against the background of many others)
- Synonym: czasami
Particle
[edit]czasem
- (with czy) expresses the speaker's certainty of their statement; happen to, isn't?
- Near-synonyms: aby, czasami, przypadkiem
Noun
[edit]czasem m inan
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czasem is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 8 times in essays, 26 times in fiction, and 41 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 100 times, making it the 627th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “czasem”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “czasem”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 59
Further reading
[edit]- “czasem I”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “czasem II”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “czasem”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “czasem”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “czasem”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 377
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “czasem 1-2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
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- Rhymes:Polish/asɛm
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