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Polish
Etymology
From chocia (Middle Polish) + -ż.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
chociaż
- although, though
- Synonyms: choć, mimo że
Particle
chociaż
- at least (at minimum)
- Synonyms: choć, przynajmniej, co najmniej
- Antonym: co najwyżej
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), chociaż is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 20 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 24 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 37 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 113 times, making it the 514th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “chociaż”, 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
- chociaż in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- chociaż in Polish dictionaries at PWN