zapytać
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Polish
[edit]Etymology
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From za- + pytać. First attested in the 16th century.[1][2] Compare Kashubian zapëtac and Silesian zapytać.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /zaˈpɨ.tat͡ɕ/
- (Lesser Poland):
Verb
[edit]zapytać pf (imperfective zapytywać)
- (transitive or reflexive with się) to ask (to request information or an answer to a question) [with o (+ accusative) ‘about whom/what’]
- Synonym: zadać pytanie
- (reflexive with się) to ask each other (to request information or an answer to a question from one another) [with o (+ accusative) ‘about whom/what’]
- (transitive, Podhale, Rabka-Zdrój) to ask for (to request)
- Synonym: poprosić
- Chociazby béł więcy zapytáł, toby mu béli dali.
- If he had asked for more, they would have given it to him.
- (transitive, obsolete) to question (to interrogate in an investigation)
- Synonym: przesłuchać
Conjugation
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Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zapytać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 3 times in essays, 53 times in fiction, and 25 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 778th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (2010-2023), “zapytać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (2010-2023), “zapytać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “zapytać”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 748
Further reading
[edit]- “zapytać”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “zapytać się”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “zapytać”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “zapytać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “zapytać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zapytać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 242
- Jan Karłowicz (1911), “zapytać”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volumes 6: U—Ż, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 313
- zapytać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- zapytać się in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Silesian
[edit]Etymology
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From za- + pytać. Compare Polish zapytać.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]zapytać pf (imperfective zapytować)
Conjugation
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- zapytać_sie in silling.org
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- Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pew-
- Polish terms prefixed with za-
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Polish
- Podhale Polish
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɘtat͡ɕ
- Rhymes:Polish/ɘtat͡ɕ/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish verbs
- Polish perfective verbs
- Polish transitive verbs
- Polish reflexive verbs
- Polish terms with usage examples
- Polish terms with obsolete senses
- Silesian terms prefixed with za-
- Silesian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pew-
- Silesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Silesian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Silesian/ɪtat͡ɕ
- Rhymes:Silesian/ɪtat͡ɕ/3 syllables
- Silesian lemmas
- Silesian verbs
- Silesian perfective verbs
- Silesian reflexive verbs