działalność

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Polish

Etymology

From działalny +‎ -ość. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from German Tätigkeit and French activité.[1] First attested in 1802.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʑaˈwal.nɔɕt͡ɕ/
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  • Rhymes: -alnɔɕt͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: dzia‧łal‧ność

Noun

działalność f

  1. operation (activity undertaken by someone for a specific purpose)
  2. activity (influence of certain natural phenomena or geographical objects)
  3. activity, operation (act of functioning)
  4. (obsolete, originall) activeness (ability to act)

Declension

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), działalność is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 30 times in scientific texts, 45 times in news, 107 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 185 times, making it the 306th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “działalność”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski (1802) Co jest filozofia ? : niektóre myśli służyć mogące do porozumienia się względem odpowiedzi na to pytanie (in Polish), page 11
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “działalność”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 100

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