który

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See also: ktorý and ktōry

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kotorъjь. First attested in the 14th century. Cognate with Latin uter, Ancient Greek πότερος (póteros), Old English hwæþer.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

który

  1. interrogative pronoun, referring to a number of choices; what, which one
  2. relative pronoun; that, who, which

Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Masurian: chtóri
  • Polish: który
  • Silesian: ftory, ktōry

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish który.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

który

  1. interrogative pronoun, referring to a number of choices; what, which one
  2. relative pronoun; that, who, which

Declension

See also

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), który is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 738 times in scientific texts, 692 times in news, 722 times in essays, 601 times in fiction, and 244 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 2997 times, making it the 16th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “który”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 209

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