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kiedy

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See also: kiędy

Old Polish

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Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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kiedy

  1. alternative form of kiegdy

Conjunction

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kiedy

  1. alternative form of kiegdy

Polish

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Polish kiegdy.

    Pronunciation

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    • Rhymes: -ɛdɘ
    • Syllabification: kie‧dy

    Pronoun

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    kiedy

    1. introduces either a dependent or interrogative clause in reference to time; when

    Conjunction

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    kiedy

    1. when, as; while (at the time that)
      Synonyms: gdy, jak, jako, podczas gdy
    2. (colloquial) when; if (under the condition that)
      Synonyms: gdy, jak, jeśli, jeżeli, skoro
    3. (Far Masovian, Przasnysz, Suwałki, Przemyśl, San river, with a negated verb in the future) all at once, suddenly
    4. (Near Masovian, Rościszewo, Karczew, Northern Borderlands, Lithuania) synonym of kieby / niby / jak (as; like)

    Usage notes

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    Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization.

    Declension

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    Adverb

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    kiedy (not comparable)

    1. (colloquial) sometime (at some undetermined time)
      Synonym: kiedyś

    Derived terms

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    Trivia

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    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

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    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “kiedy”, 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 175

    Further reading

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