Niemiec
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.mjɛt͡s/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛmjɛt͡s
- Syllabification: Nie‧miec
- Homophone: niemiec
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *němьcь. By surface analysis, niemy + -iec.
Noun
Niemiec m pers (female equivalent Niemka)
Declension
Declension of Niemiec
Related terms
adjectives
nouns
- Niemcy
- Niemiaszek
- niemiec
- niemiecczyzna
- niemieckość
Proper noun
Niemiec m pers
- a male surname
Declension
Declension of Niemiec
Proper noun
Niemiec f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun
Niemiec nvir pl
- genitive plural of Niemcy
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), Niemiec is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 11 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 89 times, making it the 712th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]