żaden

See also: zaden and zádén

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Polish żadny. Compare Czech žádný.

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ˈʐa.dɛn/
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    • Rhymes: -adɛn
    • Syllabification: ża‧den

    Pronoun

    żaden

    1. no, none (not any of a given number or group)
      Antonym: wszelki
      Coordinate terms: co do jednego, każdy, wszelaki, wszystek
    2. no one, nobody
      Synonym: nikt

    Adjective

    żaden (not comparable, no derived adverb)

    1. (sometimes colloquial) no (not possessing any of the given characteristics)
      Synonym: nijaki

    Particle

    żaden

    1. (colloquial) indicates that the following item has none of the characteristics it should; no
    2. (colloquial) indicates that the realness of something isn't; no, no such

    Declension

    Derived terms

    noun
    • żadna siła
    particles
    proverbs

    Descendants

    • Belarusian: жа́дны (žádny)
    • Ukrainian: жо́дний (žódnyj)

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), żaden is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 52 times in scientific texts, 33 times in news, 37 times in essays, 71 times in fiction, and 86 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 279 times, making it the 183rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    References

    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “żaden”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 795

    Further reading

    Anagrams

    • żadne