zakończenie

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Polish

Etymology

From zakończyć +‎ -enie. First attested in 1644.[1] Compare Silesian zakōńczynie.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /za.kɔɲˈt͡ʂɛ.ɲɛ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛɲɛ
  • Syllabification: za‧koń‧cze‧nie

Noun

zakończenie n

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of zakończyć
  2. (countable) end, ending, completion (last part of something in time)
    Synonym: koniec
  3. (countable) end, ending (last part of an object)

Declension

Declension of zakończenie
singular plural
nominative zakończenie zakończenia
genitive zakończenia zakończeń
dative zakończeniu zakończeniom
accusative zakończenie zakończenia
instrumental zakończeniem zakończeniami
locative zakończeniu zakończeniach
vocative zakończenie zakończenia

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zakończenie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 12 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 865th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Grzegorz Knapski (1644) “zakończenie”, in Thesavri Polonolatinograeci Gregorii Cnapii (in Polish), Cracoviae: Sumptu & Typis Francisci Caesarij
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zakończenie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 735

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