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gdzie

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See also: gdżie

Old Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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

    Pronoun

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    gdzie

    1. where (in what place?)
    2. where, whither (to what place?)
    3. when (at what time?)
    4. somewhere (in some unidentified place)

    Conjunction

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    gdzie

    1. where
    2. if

    Descendants

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    • Polish: gdzie
    • Silesian: gdzie, dzie (Opole)

    References

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    Polish

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Polish gdzie.

      Pronunciation

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      • Audio 1:(file)
      • Audio 2:(file)
      • Rhymes:
      • Syllabification: gdzie

      Adverb

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      gdzie (not comparable)

      1. (relative) where (in the place where)
      2. (interrogative) where (in what place?)
      3. (interrogative) where, whither (to what place?)
        Synonyms: dokąd, (archaic or poetic or dialectal) kędy
      4. (colloquial or Babia Góra, Skawica) synonym of gdzieś (somewhere)

      Trivia

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      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), gdzie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 49 times in scientific texts, 70 times in news, 71 times in essays, 104 times in fiction, and 115 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 409 times, making it the 115th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

      Particle

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      gdzie

      1. (sciences) where (used to specify the meaning of a variable)
        Synonym: niech
        Gdzie x oznacza...Where x signifies...
      2. (colloquial) used to state the speaker's disagreement with a statement and that the speaker knows something else to be true; what; yeah right
        Antonym: właśnie

      Derived terms

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      Conjunction

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      gdzie

      1. where

      Synonyms

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      Regional synonyms of gdzie (where)
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      Dialect groupDialectLocationWords
      Standardgdzie
      Middle Polishgdzie
      Greater PolandSouthern Greater PolandMiejska Górkadzie
      MasoviaNear MasovianJagodnedzie
      Łukowiecdzie
      PodlachiaBielsk Countydzie
      Lesser PolandBieczRopczyce-Sędziszów Countydzie
      Eastern LublinChełm Countydzie
      Przemyśldzie
      Western Krakówdzie
      Western LublinCiecierzyndzie
      GoralBabia GóraSkawicagdzie (somewhere)
      LachPodegrodzieNowy Sączdzie
      This table shows various regional forms in the Polish language.

      References

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      1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “gdzie”, 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 125

      Further reading

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      Silesian

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      Alternative forms

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      Etymology

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        Inherited from Old Polish gdzie.

        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /ˈɡd͡ʑɛ/
        • Audio:(file)
        • Rhymes:
        • Syllabification: gdzie

        Pronoun

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        gdzie

        1. where (in what place?)
          Synonyms: kaj, (Cieszyń) kany, kyndy

        Further reading

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