podczas

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔt.t͡ʂas/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɔt.t͡ʂas/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔtt͡ʂas
  • Syllabification: pod‧czas

Etymology 1

Univerbation of pod czas.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2][1] Compare Belarusian падча́с (padčás), Kashubian pòdczas, Masurian podcas, Russian подча́с (podčás), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), and Ukrainian під ча́с (pid čás).

Preposition

podczas

  1. during (at the same time of) [+genitive]
Derived terms
conjunctions
Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poczas (preposition) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 54 times in news, 10 times in essays, 22 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 117 times, making it the 519th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of pod czas niektóry.[4] First attested in the 16th century.[4]

Adverb

podczas (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) sometimes
    Synonyms: czasem, niekiedy

Particle

podczas

  1. also
    Synonyms: także, zarazem

References

  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), podczas 1”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. podczas”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
  3. Ida Kurcz (1990), poczas (preposition)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 382
  4. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), podczas 2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

Further reading

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