jakoś

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See also: jakos and jakòs

Polish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From jako +‎ -ś. First attested in 1500–1547.[1] Compare Kashubian jakòs, Masurian jekosz, and Silesian jakoś.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

jakoś (not comparable)

  1. somehow (in some way)

Particle[edit]

jakoś

  1. somewhere around (approximately)
    Synonym: około
  2. (colloquial) for some reason
  3. (colloquial) kinda, somewhat
    Synonym: trochę

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jakoś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 12 times in essays, 24 times in fiction, and 51 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 88 times, making it the 721st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “jakoś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “jakoś”, 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 161

Further reading[edit]

Silesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From jako +‎ -ś. Compare Polish jakoś.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

jakoś (not comparable)

  1. somehow

Particle[edit]

jakoś

  1. somewhere around (approximately)
  2. for some reason

Further reading[edit]

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