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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish żadny, which see for more. Cognate with Czech žádný.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -adɛn
- Syllabification: ża‧den
Pronoun
żaden
- no, none (not any of a given number or group)
- Synonym: wszelki
- Coordinate terms: co do jednego, każdy, wszelaki, wszystek
- no one, nobody
- Synonym: nikt
Adjective
żaden (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- (sometimes colloquial) no (not possessing any of the given characteristics)
- Synonym: nijaki
Particle
żaden
- (colloquial) indicates that the following item has none of the characteristics it should; no
- (colloquial) indicates that the realness of something isn't; no, no such
Declension
Declension of żaden (hard)
Derived terms
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), żaden is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 52 times in scientific texts, 33 times in news, 37 times in essays, 71 times in fiction, and 86 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 279 times, making it the 183rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “żaden”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 795
Further reading
- żaden in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- żaden in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “żaden”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
- “ŻADEN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, 13.11.2019
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “żaden”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “żaden”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “żaden”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 684