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Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Clipping of nie masz. First attested in the first half of the 20th century.
Pronunciation
Phrase
nie ma
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nie, ma.
- On nie ma czasu. ― He doesn't have time.
- (idiomatic) there is no, there are no
- Nie ma chleba. ― There is no bread.
- Nie ma mowy! ― No way! (literally, “There is no speech!”)
- Nigdy nikogo nie ma w domu. ― Never is there anyone home.
Usage notes
(1): is entirely regular.
(2): is only irregular in the present tense, all other forms are a combination of nie and być (appropriately conjugated), as follows: there wasn't → nie było; there won't be → nie będzie; there wouldn't be → nie byłoby.
Derived terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nie ma is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 35 times in essays, 80 times in fiction, and 152 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 304 times, making it the 166th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nie ma”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “nie ma”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 280
Further reading
- nie ma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nie ma in Polish dictionaries at PWN