kiedy

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Old Polish

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

kiedy

  1. Alternative form of kiegdy

Conjunction

kiedy

  1. Alternative form of kiegdy

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish kiegdy.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɛdɘ
  • Syllabification: kie‧dy

Pronoun

kiedy

  1. introduces either a dependent or interrogative clause in reference to time; when

Conjunction

kiedy

  1. when, as; while (at the time that)
    Synonyms: gdy, jak, jako, podczas gdy
  2. (colloquial) when; if (under the condition that)
    Synonyms: gdy, jak, jeśli, jeżeli, skoro

Adverb

kiedy (not comparable)

  1. sometime (at some undetermined time)
    Synonym: kiedyś

Derived terms

adverbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kiedy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 35 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 38 times in essays, 167 times in fiction, and 212 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 471 times, making it the 95th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kiedy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 175

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