choćby

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Polish

Etymology

From choć +‎ -by. First attested in 1549.[1] Compare Kashubian chòcbë, and Silesian choćby.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔd͡ʑbɘ
  • Syllabification: choć‧by

Conjunction

choćby

  1. (unreal conditional) even if; so much as
    Synonyms: choć, chociaż, chociażby, nawet gdyby
    Near-synonyms: jakkolwiek, żeby
  2. denotes a lack of preference with a choice; either … or

Usage notes

Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization.

Declension

Particle

choćby

  1. if only
    Synonyms: choć, chociaż, chociażby, przynajmniej
    Synonym: bodaj
  2. for example, say
    Synonyms: bodaj, bodajby, chociażby, na przykład
  3. (Middle Polish) even (in reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality)
    Synonym: nawet
conjunction
noun
verb

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), choćby is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 22 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 22 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 30 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 123 times, making it the 982nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “choćby”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “choćby”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 47

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

From choć +‎ -by. Compare Polish choćby.

Pronunciation

Particle

choćby

  1. as if
    Synonyms: choby, jakby

Conjunction

choćby

  1. (unreal conditional) if
    Synonym: choby

Declension

Further reading

  • choćby in silling.org
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “cho(ć)by”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 68