gdzie

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See also: gdżie

Old Polish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Pronoun[edit]

gdzie

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

Conjunction[edit]

gdzie

  1. where
  2. if

Descendants[edit]

  • Masurian: gdżie, dżie
  • Polish: gdzie
  • Silesian: gdzie, dzie

References[edit]

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish gdzie.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɡd͡ʑɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈɡd͡ʑɛ/
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  • Rhymes:
  • Syllabification: gdzie

Pronoun[edit]

gdzie

  1. (relative) where (in the place where)
  2. (interrogative) where (in what place?)
  3. (interrogative) where, whither (to what place?)
    Synonym: dokąd

Trivia[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

pronouns

Conjunction[edit]

gdzie

  1. where

Adverb[edit]

gdzie (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) somewhere (in some unidentified place)
    Synonym: gdzieś

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “gdzie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 125

Further reading[edit]

Silesian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish gdzie.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Pronoun[edit]

gdzie

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

Further reading[edit]