zasada

See also: Appendix:Variations of "zasada"

Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from zasadzić. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Czech zásada, Slovak zásada, and Russian заса́да (zasáda).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zaˈsa.da/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /zaˈsa.da/, /zaˈsɒ.da/

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: za‧sa‧da
• Homophone: Zasada

Noun

zasada f (diminutive (rare) zasadka, related adjective zasadowy)

1. law; natural law (rule according to which things operate)

   Synonyms: prawidło, prawo

2. rule, principle (rule according to which something is constructed or works)
3. rule (way of proceeding in given circumstances, in a given area of life, sanctioned by law)

   Synonyms: norma, obyczaj, prawo, reguła, rygor

4. rule (manner; habit of conduct considered by a given person or a given environment to be good and worthy of use, binding)

   Synonyms: filozofia, klucz, mechanizm, system

5. (chemistry) base (any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts)

   Synonym: alkalia

   Coordinate term: kwas

6. (obsolete, originally) foundation, principle, base (that which is at the base)

   Synonyms: fundament, podstawa

Declension

Declension of zasada

	singular	plural
nominative	zasada	zasady
genitive	zasady	zasad
dative	zasadzie	zasadom
accusative	zasadę	zasady
instrumental	zasadą	zasadami
locative	zasadzie	zasadach
vocative	zasado	zasady

Derived terms

(adjective):

• zasadny

(adverb):

• dla zasady

(noun):

• zasada starszeństwa

(particles):

• w zasadzie
• z zasady

(verbs):

• uzasadnić pf, uzasadniać impf

Related terms

(adjective):

• bezzasadny
• uzasadniony
• zasadniczy

(adverbs):

• bezzasadnie
• zasadniczo
• zasadnie
• zasadowo

(nouns):

• bezzasadność
• zasadniczość
• zasadność
• zasadowica
• zasadowość

(verbs):

• sadzić impf
• zasadzić pf, zasadzać impf

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zasada is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 71 times in scientific texts, 28 times in news, 72 times in essays, 9 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 298th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• zasada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• zasada in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zasada”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zasada”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zasada”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 260

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Czech zásada.

Noun

zȃsada f (Cyrillic spelling за̑сада)

1. (dated) principle, rule

Etymology 2

Adverb

zasada (Cyrillic spelling засада)

1. Alternative form of zàsad

Declension

    Declension of zasada

	singular	plural
nominative	zasada	zasade
genitive	zasade	zasada
dative	zasadi	zasadama
accusative	zasadu	zasade
vocative	zasado	zasade
locative	zasadi	zasadama
instrumental	zasadom	zasadama

Further reading

• “zasada”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025