zwierzę
Appearance
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (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
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish źwierzę. By surface analysis, zwierz + -ę.
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Declension of zwierzę
singular | plural | |
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nominative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
genitive | zwierzęcia | zwierząt |
dative | zwierzęciu | zwierzętom |
accusative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
instrumental | zwierzęciem | zwierzętami |
locative | zwierzęciu | zwierzętach |
vocative | zwierzę | zwierzęta |
Derived terms
[edit]nouns
Trivia
[edit]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
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]zwierzę pf
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛʐɛw̃
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- Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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