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czasem

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Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Instrumental singular of czas. First attested in the 18th century.[1] Compare Kashubian czasã, Silesian czasym, and Slovincian czasã.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂa.sɛm/
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    • Rhymes: -asɛm
    • Syllabification: cza‧sem

    Adverb

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    czasem (not comparable)

    1. every now and then, from time to time, occasionally, sometimes
      Synonyms: co jakiś czas, czasami, nieraz, niekiedy
    2. sometimes (in one or another case against the background of many others)
      Synonym: czasami

    Particle

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    czasem

    1. (with czy) expresses the speaker's certainty of their statement; happen to, isn't?
      Near-synonyms: aby, czasami, przypadkiem

    Noun

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    czasem m inan

    1. instrumental singular of czas

    Trivia

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    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

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    1. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “czasem”, in Słownik języka polskiego
    2. ^ 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

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