zawsze

See also: zawszę

Old Polish

Etymology

    Univerbation of za + wsze + (czasy), literally “for all of the time”. First attested in the 15th century.

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    Pronunciation

    Adverb

    zawszeCategory:Old Polish lemmas#ZAWSZECategory:Old Polish adverbs#ZAWSZECategory:Old Polish entries with incorrect language header#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with entries#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#ZAWSZE

    1. always; constantly, continually, without interruption

    Descendants

    References

    • Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “zawsze”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
    • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “zawsze”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
    Category:Old Polish frequency adverbs#ZAWSZE

    Polish

    Etymology

      Inherited from Old Polish zawsze.

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      Pronunciation

      Adverb

      zawsze (not comparable, diminutive (dialectal) zawdziutko or (dialectal) zawdziuchno)Category:Polish lemmas#ZAWSZECategory:Polish adverbs#ZAWSZECategory:Polish uncomparable adverbs#ZAWSZECategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with entries#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#ZAWSZE

      1. always (every time)
        Synonyms: każdorazowo, za każdym razem
        Antonym: nigdy
      2. always (constantly, without interruption)
        Synonyms: bez ustanku, bezustannie, ciągle, nieprzerwanie, nieustająco, nieustannie, stale, ustawicznie, wciąż, wiecznie, (archaic) zawżdy
        Antonym: nigdy

      Particle

      zawszeCategory:Polish lemmas#ZAWSZECategory:Polish particles#ZAWSZECategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with entries#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#ZAWSZE

      1. always (in any event)
        Near-synonym: ostatecznie

      Derived terms

      adverbs

      Descendants

      Trivia

      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zawsze is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 43 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 46 times in essays, 63 times in fiction, and 149 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 311 times, making it the 163rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

      References

      1. Ida Kurcz (1990), “zawsze”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 758

      Further reading

      Category:Polish frequency adverbs#ZAWSZE

      Silesian

      Etymology

        Inherited from Old Polish zawsze.

        Category:Silesian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷey- (perceive)#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian terms inherited from Old Polish#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *dwóh₁#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian terms derived from Old Polish#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with etymology trees#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian entries with etymology trees#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian entries with etymology texts#ZAWSZECategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#ZAWSZE

        Pronunciation

        Adverb

        zawszeCategory:Silesian lemmas#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian adverbs#ZAWSZECategory:Silesian entries with incorrect language header#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with entries#ZAWSZECategory:Pages with 3 entries#ZAWSZE

        1. always
          Synonyms: dycki, dycko, wdycki, zawdy, zŏwdy
          Antonym: nigdy

        Further reading

        Category:Silesian frequency adverbs#ZAWSZE
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