inwestycja

See also: inwestycją

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Borrowed from German Investition.[1][2] First attested in 1812.[3] By surface analysis, inwestować +‎ -cja.[4] Compare Kashubian jinwesticjô and Silesian inwestycyjŏ.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /in.vɛsˈtɘ.t͡sja/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɘt͡sja
    • Syllabification: in‧wes‧ty‧cja

    Noun

    inwestycja f (related adjective inwestycyjny)

    1. (finance) investment (placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation) [with w (+ accusative) ‘into what’]
      Synonym: lokata
    2. investment (that which is invested into)
    3. investment (spending time and money on something or someone that will bring some benefit in the future)
      Synonym: kapitał
    4. investment (part of goods produced that are not intended for direct consumption)

    Declension

    adjectives
    nouns
    verbs

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), inwestycja is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 66 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 91 times, making it the 698th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

    References

    1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “inwestycja”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
    2. ^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “inwestycja”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
    3. ^ Gazeta Lwowska (in Polish), number 93, 20 November 1812, page 780
    4. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “inwestycja”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
    5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “inwestycja”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 156

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