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Old Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /kjɛdɨ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /kjɛdɨ/
Pronoun
kiedy
- Alternative form of kiegdy
Conjunction
kiedy
- Alternative form of kiegdy
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish kiegdy.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
kiedy
- introduces either a dependent or interrogative clause in reference to time; when
Conjunction
kiedy
- when, as; while (at the time that)
- Synonyms: gdy, jak, jako, podczas gdy
- (colloquial) when; if (under the condition that)
- Synonyms: gdy, jak, jeśli, jeżeli, skoro
Adverb
kiedy (not comparable)
- sometime (at some undetermined time)
- Synonym: kiedyś
Derived terms
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
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kiedy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 175
Further reading
- kiedy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kiedy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kiedy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “7391”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kiedy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 321
- kiedy in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego