znajdować
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Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From znajść + -ować. First attested in the 16th century.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio 1; “znajdować”: (file) Audio 2; “znajdować się”: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ɕ
- Syllabification: znaj‧do‧wać
Verb
[edit]znajdować impf (perfective znaleźć)
- (transitive) to find (to determine the location of a person or thing)
- Synonym: odnajdować
- (transitive) to find (to acquire or invent something needed)
- (transitive) to find (to claim pressence of or see something or someone somewhere; to come across)
- Synonym: spotykać
- (transitive) to find, to come across, to run into (to encounter someone in a particular state)
- (transitive) to find, to work up (to summon up or muster i.e. courage)
- Synonym: zdobywać się
- (transitive, archaic) to find (to assess the state of something)
- (intransitive) used as a light verb with deverbal nouns or gerunds to indicate the beginning of said verb
- (reflexive with się) to end up somewhere (to go to a certain place or to a certain group)
- (reflexive with się) to find oneself somewhere (to be in some situation or state)
- (reflexive with się) to be found (to be acquired or thought up)
- Synonym: najdować się
- (reflexive with się) to be found (after going missing, to be discovered again)
- Synonym: odnajdować się
- Antonyms: zaginać, zginać
Conjugation
[edit]Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), znajdować is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 12 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 40 times, making it the 301st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “znajdować”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “znajdować”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 780
Further reading
[edit]- znajdować in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- znajdować in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “znajdować się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “ZNAJDOWAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 24.09.2009
- “ZNAJDOWAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 19.02.2016
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “znajdować”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “znajdować”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “znajdować”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 576
- znajdować in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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