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zwierzę

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See also: zwierze and źwierzę

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (normal speech) /ˈzvjɛ.ʐɛ/, (careful speech) /ˈzvjɛ.ʐɛw̃/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): (16th c.) /ˈzvjɛ.r̝ɛ̃/, (17th–18th c.) /ˈzvjɛ.ʐɛ̃/, (16th c.) /ˈzvje.r̝ɛ̃/, (17th–18th c.) /ˈzvje.ʐɛ̃/

Etymology 1

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    Inherited from Old Polish źwierzę. By surface analysis, zwierz +‎ .

    Noun

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    zwierzę n (diminutive zwierzątko, related adjective zwierzęcy)

    1. animal (member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human)
      • 2021 July 1, Hanna Mamzer, Paweł Nowak, “Przeciwdziałanie bezdomności‎ zwierząt ‎jako‎ problem społeczny [Combating animal homelessness as a social problem]”, in Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny[2], volume 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 348:
        Samorządy‎ z‎ tego‎‎ samego ‎powodu, dla którego wolą truć‎ szczurze‎ populacje, zamiast‎ zapobiegać ‎ich ‎rozmnażaniu‎ ‎antykoncepcją,‎ wolą‎ unikać oferowania programów‎ sterylizacji/‎kastracji‎ zwierząt właścicielskich.
        For the same reason that local governments prefer to poison rat populations rather than prevent their reproduction with contraception, they prefer to avoid offering sterilization/castration programs for owner-owned animals.
    2. (biology) animal (eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants))
    3. (colloquial) beast (person who has a set of characteristics that make him or her function well in a particular environment)
      Synonym: zwierz
    4. (colloquial, derogatory) animal (person who behaves wildly)
    Declension
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    Trivia

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    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zwierzę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 66 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 3 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 621st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    zwierzę pf

    1. first-person singular future of zwierzyć

    References

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    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “zwierzę”, 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 790

    Further reading

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