dlatego

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See also: dlátégo

Old Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of dla +‎ tego, literally for that. First attested in c. 1498.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /dlʲaːtɛːɡɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /dlʲɒteɡɔ/

Conjunction

dlatego

  1. (attested in Masovia) that's why, because of this,
    • 1875 [End of the 15th century], Stanisław Motty, editor, Książeczka do nabożeństwa Jadwigi księżniczki polskiej, Modlitewnik Nawojki, page 159:
      Oszwyeczylesz mathką szwa dvchem szwyathym. Dlyathego czye proschą, panye, yzby oszwyeczyl szyercze moye, bo grzechy moye sza nyewymowne
      [Oświeciłeś matkę swą Duchem Świętym, dlatego cie proszę, Panie, iżby oświecił sierce moje, bo grzechy moje są niewymowne]
    • 1950 [c. 1498], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 1804, Warsaw:
      O kthore ssbyczye na mya zalvye o robothlywego kmyeczya Andrzeya..., aczbych czo vdzyalal, tho dlathego w skodzye szwey, w borv szwoym, gdzye my szkoda dzyelal
      [O ktore zbicie na mię żałuje o robotliwego kmiecia Andrzeja..., aczbych co udziałał, to dlatego w szkodzie swej, w boru swoim, gdzie mi szkodę dziełał]

Derived terms

conjunction

Descendants

  • Masurian: dlátégo
  • Polish: dlatego
  • Silesian: dlŏtygo

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish dlatego. By surface analysis, univerbation of dla +‎ tego. Compare Kashubian dlôtegò and Slovincian dlotêwo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dlaˈtɛ.ɡɔ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /dlɒˈte.ɡɔ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
  • Syllabification: dla‧te‧go

Particle

dlatego

  1. that's why

Conjunction

dlatego

  1. (obsolete) in order to
    Synonym: po to
  2. (obsolete) but; even though
    Synonyms: jednak, mimo że

Declension

Derived terms

conjunctions

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dlatego is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 67 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 93 times in essays, 38 times in fiction, and 68 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 278 times, making it the 184th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “dlatego”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 74

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