gospodarka

See also: gospodarką

Polish

Etymology

From gospodarz +‎ -ka. First attested in 1792.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔs.pɔˈdar.ka/

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• Rhymes: -arka
• Syllabification: gos‧po‧dar‧ka

Noun

gospodarka f (related adjective gospodarczy)

1. (uncountable) economy (system of production and distribution and consumption)

   Synonyms: ekonomia, ekonomika

2. (uncountable) economy (effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources) [with instrumental ‘of what’]

   Synonym: zarządzanie

3. (uncountable) economy (all factories, production plants, etc. considered collectively)
4. (countable, colloquial, originally) farm (rural place of residence)

   Synonym: gospodarstwo

Declension

Declension of gospodarka

	singular	plural
nominative	gospodarka	gospodarki
genitive	gospodarki	gospodarek
dative	gospodarce	gospodarkom
accusative	gospodarkę	gospodarki
instrumental	gospodarką	gospodarkami
locative	gospodarce	gospodarkach
vocative	gospodarko	gospodarki

Derived terms

nouns

• gospodarka nakazowa
• gospodarka naturalna

 

verbs

• gospodarka się przegrzała pf, gospodarka się przegrzewa impf
• rozpędzić gospodarkę pf, rozpędzać gospodarkę impf

 

Descendants

• → Kashubian: gòspòdarka
• → Silesian: gospodarka

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), gospodarka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 20 times in scientific texts, 32 times in news, 126 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 185 times, making it the 307th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• gospodarka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gospodarka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “gospodarka”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 881
• gospodarka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego