kadra

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Etymology

Borrowed from French cadre. First attested in the 20th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkad.ra/
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  • Rhymes: -adra
  • Syllabification: kad‧ra

Noun

kadra f (related adjective kadrowy)

  1. cadre (small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession)
  2. (military) cadre (officers of a regiment forming the staff)
  3. cadre (players who represent their club, region, country or city in various types of competitions in a given sport)
    Synonym: reprezentacja
  4. (colloquial, in the plural) human resources (personnel department of an organization, dealing with the recruitment, administration, management and training of employees; often abbreviated as HR)

Declension

Declension of kadra
singular plural
nominative kadra kadry
genitive kadry kadr
dative kadrze kadrom
accusative kadrę kadry
instrumental kadrą kadrami
locative kadrze kadrach
vocative kadro kadry

Descendants

  • → Kashubian: kadra

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kadra is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 14 times in news, 34 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 56 times, making it the 1151st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “kadra”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “kadra”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ kadra in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kadra”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 168

Further reading

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

Sumerian

Romanization

kadra

  1. Romanization of 𒃻𒊮𒀀 (kadra)
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