wówczas

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Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of w ów czas. First attested in 1605.[1]

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -uft͡ʂas
  • Syllabification: wów‧czas

Adverb

wówczas (not comparable)

  1. (literary) back then, at that time
    Synonyms: naówczas, natedy, natenczas, podówczas, wonczas, wtedy, wtenczas
    Miałem wówczas 14 lat. ― I was 14 at the time.
  2. (literary) then, when (in that case)
    Synonym: wtedy
    Porozmawiamy dopiero wówczas, gdy się uspokoisz. ― We will talk only when you calm down.
adjective

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wówczas is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 56 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 29 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 116 times, making it the 527th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Paweł Kupiszewski (05.10.2023) “WÓWCZAS”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wówczas”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 676

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