dziesiąta

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See also: dziesiątą

Polish

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔnta
  • Syllabification: dzie‧sią‧ta

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of dziesiąta godzina.

Noun

dziesiąta f

  1. (in both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) ten o'clock (start of the eleventh hour of the day; 10:00 a.m. (10:00))
  2. (only in the 12-hour clock) ten o'clock (start of the twenty-third hour of the day; 10:00 p.m. (22:00))
    pół do dziesiątejhalf past nine
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Numeral

dziesiąta

  1. inflection of dziesiąty:
    1. feminine nominative singular
    2. feminine vocative singular

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dziesiąta is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 36 times in scientific texts, 68 times in news, 31 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 135 times, making it the 443rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “dziesiąta”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 102

Further reading

  • dziesiąta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • dziesiąta in Polish dictionaries at PWN