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dlaczego

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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    Univerbation of dla + czego, literally “for what”. First attested in the end of the fifteenth century.

    Pronunciation

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

    Conjunction

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    dlaczego

    1. (attested in Masovia) that's why, so, ergo
      • 1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor, Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116transliteration, transcription, Warsaw, page 307:
        Dvch boszy na myą, dlyaczego pomazal mya vzyawyacz vbogym (propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me Luc 4, 18)
        [Duch boży na mię, dlaczego pomazał mię wzjawiać ubogim (propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me Luc 4, 18)]

    Descendants

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    References

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    Polish

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Polish dlaczego. By surface analysis, univerbation of dla +‎ czego. Compare Kashubian dlôczegò and Slovincian dluczú.

      Pronunciation

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      • Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
      • Syllabification: dla‧cze‧go

      Pronoun

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      dlaczego

      1. (interrogative) why (for what cause, reason, or purpose)
        Synonym: czemu

      Usage notes

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      Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization.

      Declension

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      Derived terms

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      Trivia

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      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dlaczego is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 11 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 23 times in essays, 68 times in fiction, and 160 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 265 times, making it the 195th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

      References

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      1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “dlaczego”, 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 74

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