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]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 656

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