zwierzę
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Polish
Pronunciation
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): (16th c.) /ˈzvjɛ.r̝ɛ̃/, (17th–18th c.) /ˈzvjɛ.ʐɛ̃/, (16th c.) /ˈzvje.r̝ɛ̃/, (17th–18th c.) /ˈzvje.ʐɛ̃/
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) Audio 3: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛʐɛw̃
- Syllabification: zwie‧rzę
- Homophone: zwierze
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish źwierzę. By surface analysis, zwierz + -ę.
Noun
zwierzę n (diminutive zwierzątko, related adjective zwierzęcy)
- animal (member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human)
- (biology) animal (eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants))
- (colloquial) beast (person who has a set of characteristics that make him or her function well in a particular environment)
- Synonym: zwierz
- (colloquial, derogatory) animal (person who behaves wildly)
Declension
Declension of zwierzę
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
| genitive | zwierzęcia | zwierząt |
| dative | zwierzęciu | zwierzętom |
| accusative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
| instrumental | zwierzęciem | zwierzętami |
| locative | zwierzęciu | zwierzętach |
| vocative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
Derived terms
nouns
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zwierzę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 66 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 3 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 621st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
zwierzę pf
References
Further reading
- zwierzę in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zwierzę in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zwierzę”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “ZWIERZĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 05.11.2016
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zwierzę”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 648