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Polish
Etymology
From jaki + -ś. First attested in 1534. Compare Kashubian jaczis, Masurian jekisz, Silesian jakiś, and Slovincian jakjysz.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
jakiś
- some; unspecified member of the category described by the following word
- Synonyms: jaki, jeden, pewien
W ogrodzie widziałem jakieś zwierzę.- I saw some animal in the garden. (and I'm not sure what it was)
Jeśli będziesz w sklepie, to kup jakąś herbatę.- If you visit a store, buy some tea. (any tea will do)
Particle
jakiś
- (colloquial) used to express doubt on the usage of a term on the speaker's part; kinda, sorta
- Ona jest jakaś niemiła. ― She's kinda mean.
- (colloquial) used to express doubt on the amount on the speaker's part; about
- Synonyms: jaki, gdzieś
- Ma jakiś litr. ― It has about a liter.
Declension
In the accusative, the form jakiegoś is used for masculine personal and masculine animate nouns, while jakiś is used for masculine inanimate nouns.
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jakiś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 65 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 71 times in essays, 175 times in fiction, and 185 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 500 times, making it the 89th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “jakiś”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “jakiś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “jakiś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 160
Further reading
- jakiś in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- jakiś in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “jakiś”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “jakiś”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “jakiś”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 128
- jakiś in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Silesian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From jaki + -ś. Compare Polish jakiś and Kashubian jaczis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjakiɕ/
- Rhymes: -akiɕ
- Syllabification: ja‧kiś
Pronoun
jakiś
- some; unspecified member of the category described by the following word
- Synonyms: jedyn, (Cieszyn) kerysi, kerysik
Further reading