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Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Univerbation of w + ciąż.
Pronunciation
Adverb
wciąż (not comparable)
- still; constantly (up to a time, as in the preceding time; without stopping)
- Synonyms: ciągle, dalej, jeszcze, nadal
- over and over
- Synonym: raz po raz
- (obsolete) smoothly (without holes in a surface)
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wciąż is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 24 times in essays, 32 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 745th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wciąż”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 656
Further reading
- wciąż in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wciąż in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wciąż”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “WCIĄŻ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wciąż”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wciąż”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wciąż”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 487