wśród

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Polish weśród. By surface analysis, univerbation of w +‎ śród.

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ˈfɕrut/
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    • Rhymes: -ut
    • Syllabification: wśród

    Preposition

    wśród [with genitive]

    1. denotes location of being surrounded; among
      Synonyms: pośród, (less common) śród, (less common) wpośród
      Near-synonyms: między, pomiędzy
    2. denotes belonging to a whole; among
      Synonyms: pośród, (less common) śród, w liczbie, (less common) wpośród
      Antonym: poza
      Near-synonyms: między, pomiędzy
    3. denotes something detected in a crowd; among
      Synonyms: (less common) śród, (less common) wpośród
      Antonym: poza
      Near-synonym: u
    4. denotes accomponying phenomena; among
      Synonyms: (less common) śród, (less common) wpośród
      Near-synonym: w
    5. (obsolete) denotes time in which something occurs; at
      Near-synonyms: podczas, w
    6. (obsolete) denotes internal location; within
      Synonyms: w, w środku

    Trivia

    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wśród is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 50 times in news, 49 times in essays, 34 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 185 times, making it the 308th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    References

    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “wśród”, 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 686

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