chociaż
Polish
Etymology
From chocia (Middle Polish) + -ż.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxɔ.t͡ɕaʂ/
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔt͡ɕaʂ
- Syllabification: cho‧ciaż
Conjunction
chociaż
Particle
chociaż
- at least (at minimum)
- Synonyms: choć, przynajmniej, co najmniej
- Antonym: co najwyżej
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), chociaż is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 20 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 24 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 37 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 113 times, making it the 514th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]