wczoraj
Appearance
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish wczora. The current form with the final -j was first attested in 1656–1688.[1] For the final -j, compare dzisiaj.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]wczoraj (not comparable)
Noun
[edit]wczoraj n (indeclinable)
Derived terms
[edit]adjective
adverb
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wczoraj is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 56 times in news, 1 time in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 38 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 110 times, making it the 562nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ “WCZORAJ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 14.09.2021
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wczoraj”, 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
[edit]- wczoraj in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wczoraj in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wczora”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “WCZORA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 14.09.2021
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “wczoraj”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wczoraj”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wczoraj”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 490
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɔraj
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