ministerstwo
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Polish
Etymology
From minister + -stwo. First attested in 1811. Compare Kashubian minysterstwò.
Pronunciation
Noun
ministerstwo n (abbreviation min. or minist.)
- ministry (government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister)
- Synonym: resort
- ministry (building with such a department)
- (obsolete) position or function of a minister
Declension
Declension of ministerstwo
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ministerstwo | ministerstwa |
| genitive | ministerstwa | ministerstw |
| dative | ministerstwu | ministerstwom |
| accusative | ministerstwo | ministerstwa |
| instrumental | ministerstwem | ministerstwami |
| locative | ministerstwie | ministerstwach |
| vocative | ministerstwo | ministerstwa |
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ministerstwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 49 times in news, 21 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 806th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Johann Friedrich Dorn (181) Nauka nayważniejszych działań w piwowarstwie i gorzelnictwie i i sądzenie o nich (in Polish), page 9
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ministerstwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 249
Further reading
- ministerstwo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ministerstwo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ministerstwo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “ministerstwo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 990
- ministerstwo in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego