zjawisko
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Polish
Etymology
From zjawić + -isko. First attested in 1791.[1] Compare Kashubian zjawiszcze and Silesian zjawisko.
Pronunciation
Noun
zjawisko n
- phenomenon (thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses)
- Synonym: fenomen
- phenomenon (fact or event considered very unusual)
- Synonym: fenomen
- apparition (unreal dream vision or delusion)
- Synonym: zjawa
Declension
Declension of zjawisko
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | zjawisko | zjawiska |
| genitive | zjawiska | zjawisk |
| dative | zjawisku | zjawiskom |
| accusative | zjawisko | zjawiska |
| instrumental | zjawiskiem | zjawiskami |
| locative | zjawisku | zjawiskach |
| vocative | zjawisko | zjawiska |
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zjawisko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 71 times in scientific texts, 8 times in news, 58 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 148 times, making it the 391st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
Further reading
- zjawisko in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zjawisko in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zjawisko”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zjawisko”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 511
- zjawisko in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego