kiedy
Old Polish
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editkiedy
- Alternative form of kiegdy
Conjunction
editkiedy
- Alternative form of kiegdy
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish kiegdy.
Pronunciation
editPronoun
editkiedy
- introduces either a dependent or interrogative clause in reference to time; when
Conjunction
editkiedy
- when, as; while (at the time that)
- Synonyms: gdy, jak, jako, podczas gdy
- (colloquial) when; if (under the condition that)
Adverb
editkiedy (not comparable)
- (colloquial) sometime (at some undetermined time)
- Synonym: kiedyś
Derived terms
editadverbs
Trivia
editAccording 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
editFurther reading
edit- kiedy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kiedy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kiedy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “KIEDY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 30.03.2020
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 321
- kiedy in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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