twój

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See also: twoj

Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tvojь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtwoj/
  • Syllabification: twój

Pronoun

twój

  1. singular second person possessive pronoun; your, yours; thy, thine

Declension

Further reading

  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “twój”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volume 2, page 268
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “twój”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi, volume 2, page 1170

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tvojь.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

twój

  1. Singular informal second person possessive pronoun; your, yours; thy, thine

Declension

Masurian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish twój.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Syllabification: twój

Pronoun

twój

  1. singular second person possessive pronoun; your, yours; thy, thine

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tvojь. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

twój

  1. singular second person possessive pronoun; your, yours; thy, thine

Descendants

  • Masurian: twój
  • Polish: twój
  • Silesian: twōj

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish twój.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

twój

  1. singular second person possessive pronoun; your, yours; thy, thine

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), twój is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 1 time in essays, 30 times in fiction, and 132 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 163 times, making it the 354th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “twój”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 616

Further reading

  • twój in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • twój in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “twoj”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • TWÓJ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2017 November 16
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “twój”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “twój”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “twój”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 181
  • twój in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Slovincian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tvojь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtfoj/
  • Syllabification: twój

Pronoun

twój

  1. singular second person possessive pronoun; your, yours; thy, thine

Further reading

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tvojь.

Pronoun

twój

  1. Singular informal second person possessive pronoun; your, yours; thy, thine

Declension

Further reading