Polish

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Etymology

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From gdzie +‎ . First attested in 1534.[1] Compare Kashubian dzes.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛɕ
  • Syllabification: gdzieś

Adverb

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gdzieś (not comparable)

  1. (indeterminate) somewhere
  2. (Middle Polish) nowhere
    Synonym: nigdzie

Particle

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gdzieś

  1. (colloquial) somewhere around (at some indeterminate amount or degree)
    Synonyms: coś, jakoś, mniej więcej, około, plus minus, z
  2. (Middle Polish, optative) if only; had better, may

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), gdzieś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 3 times in essays, 31 times in fiction, and 34 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 73 times, making it the 880th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “gdzieś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “gdzieś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 125

Further reading

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