kiedy
Appearance
See also: kiędy
Old Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]kiedy
- alternative form of kiegdy
Conjunction
[edit]kiedy
- alternative form of kiegdy
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish kiegdy.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈkjɛ.dɨ/
- (Masovia):
- (Near Masovian) IPA(key): [ˈkjɛ.dɘ]
- (Far Masovian) IPA(key): [ˈkjɛ.dɘ]
- (Suwałki) IPA(key): [ˈkjɛ.dɘ]
- (Lesser Poland):
- (Borderlands):
- (Northern Borderlands) IPA(key): [ˈkjɛ.dɘ]
Pronoun
[edit]kiedy
- introduces either a dependent or interrogative clause in reference to time; when
Conjunction
[edit]kiedy
- when, as; while (at the time that)
- Synonyms: gdy, jak, jako, podczas gdy
- (colloquial) when; if (under the condition that)
- (Far Masovian, Przasnysz, Suwałki, Przemyśl, San river, with a negated verb in the future) all at once, suddenly
- (Near Masovian, Rościszewo, Karczew, Northern Borderlands, Lithuania) synonym of kieby / niby / jak (“as; like”)
Usage notes
[edit]Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization.
Declension
[edit]Combined forms of kiedy
Adverb
[edit]kiedy (not comparable)
- (colloquial) sometime (at some undetermined time)
- Synonym: kiedyś
Derived terms
[edit]Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kiedy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 35 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 38 times in essays, 167 times in fiction, and 212 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 471 times, making it the 95th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Modern Standard Polish:
- Middle Polish:
- Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “kiedy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “KIEDY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 30.03.2020
- Historic dictionaries:
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 321
- Dialectal dictionaries:
- Jan Karłowicz (1901), “kiedy”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 2: F do K, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 343
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- Middle Polish
- Near Masovian Polish
- Far Masovian Polish
- Suwałki Polish
- Sieradz Polish
- Przemyśl Polish
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛdɘ
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛdɘ/2 syllables
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