posiedzenie

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish posiedzienie. By surface analysis, posiedzieć +‎ -enie. Compare Kashubian pòsedzenié.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /pɔ.ɕɛˈd͡zɛ.ɲɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɲɛ
  • Syllabification: po‧sie‧dze‧nie

Noun

posiedzenie n (diminutive posiedzonko, related adjective posiedzeniowy)

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of posiedzieć
  2. (countable) sitting; session, plenary (meeting held by a group of people in order to discuss some topic or topics)
    Synonyms: obrady, sesja
  3. (countable, obsolete) situation, job, position, post, occupation
    Synonyms: posada, zajęcie
  4. (countable, obsolete) company, fellowship, group
    Synonyms: kompania, towarzystwo
  5. (Ostróda) small property

Declension

See also

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), posiedzenie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 64 times in news, 10 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 79 times, making it the 816th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “posiedzenie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 410

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