wciąż

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Univerbation of w +‎ ciąż.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈft͡ɕɔw̃ʂ/, /ˈft͡ɕɔnʂ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔw̃ʂ
  • Syllabification: wciąż

Adverb

wciąż (not comparable)

  1. still; constantly (up to a time, as in the preceding time; without stopping)
    Synonyms: ciągle, dalej, jeszcze, nadal
  2. over and over
    Synonym: raz po raz
  3. (obsolete) smoothly (without holes in a surface)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wciąż is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 24 times in essays, 32 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 745th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wciąż”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 656

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