trochę

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word trochę. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word trochę, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say trochę in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word trochę you have here. The definition of the word trochę will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition oftrochę, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: troche, and Troche

Old Polish

Etymology

From trocha +‎ . First attested in 1463–1465.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

trochę

  1. (attested in Masovia) for a short time

Descendants

  • Polish: trochę
  • Silesian: trochã

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “trochę”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “trochę”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “trochę”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish trochę. Accusative singular of trocha. Compare odrobinę, parę, or Hungarian egy kicsit.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (normal speech) /ˈtrɔ.xɛ/, (careful speech) /ˈtrɔ.xɛw̃/
  • with final nasal pronunciation:(file)
  • without final nasal pronunciation:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔxɛw̃
  • Syllabification: tro‧chę

Particle

trochę (diminutive troszkę or troszeczkę or troszeńkę)

  1. kinda; slightly, somewhat
    Synonyms: nieco, po trochu, po trosze, dość, poniekąd
    Antonym: bardzo

Numeral

trochę

  1. a little, a bit of, some
    Synonyms: odrobinę, nieco
    Antonyms: dużo, wiele

Adverb

trochę (not comparable)

  1. a little (not much; for a short time)
    Synonyms: niewiele, krótko

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), trochę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 8 times in essays, 71 times in fiction, and 94 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 182 times, making it the 312th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “trochę”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 610

Further reading