spotkanie

Polish

Etymology

From spotkać +‎ -anie. Compare English meeting. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /spɔtˈka.ɲɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɲɛ
  • Syllabification: spot‧ka‧nie

Noun

spotkanie n

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of spotkać
  2. (countable) meeting (act of persons or things that meet) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’]
  3. (countable) meeting (gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’]
  4. (countable, sports) match (competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match)
    Synonym: mecz

Declension

Declension of spotkanie
singular plural
nominative spotkanie spotkania
genitive spotkania spotkań
dative spotkaniu spotkaniom
accusative spotkanie spotkania
instrumental spotkaniem spotkaniami
locative spotkaniu spotkaniach
vocative spotkanie spotkania

Derived terms

nouns
  • spotkanie na szczycie
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), spotkanie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 131 times in news, 25 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 186 times, making it the 304th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “spotkanie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “spotkanie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 549

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