myśleć
Polish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish myślić with a shift of ić -> -eć through analogy of verbs like widzieć.[1] By surface analysis, myśl + -eć.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmyśleć impf (perfective pomyśleć)
- (intransitive) to think (to ponder in one's head) [with o (+ locative) or nad (+ instrumental) ‘of/about something’]
- (transitive) to think (to be of the opinion)
- (intransitive) to think about (to take care of, to tend to; to keep in mind) [with o (+ locative) ‘about what/whom’]
- (intransitive) to think about (to want to do, to intend) [with infinitive or żeby ‘of doing what’; or with o (+ locative) ‘of/about what’]
- (Middle Polish) to think; Further details are uncertain.
- 1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum[1], page 878b:
- Puto – Odczinam galezie. Putare item ad animum transfertur, pro cogitare, considerare et animo revolvere. Mislie, mniemam.
- [Puto – Odczinam galezie. Putare item ad animum transfertur, pro cogitare, considerare et animo revolvere. Myślę, mniemam.]
Conjugation
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verbs
- przemyśleć pf, przemyśliwać impf
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Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), myśleć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 21 times in essays, 108 times in fiction, and 246 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 386 times, making it the 129th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
edit- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “myśleć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “myśleć”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 260
Further reading
edit- myśleć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- myśleć in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “myślić, myśleć”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “MYŚLEĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 26.04.2016
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “myśleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “myśleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “myśleć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1087
- myśleć in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “myśleć”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN
Silesian
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Polish myślić with a shift of ić -> -eć through analogy of verbs like widzieć. By surface analysis, myśl + -eć.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmyśleć impf (perfective pōmyśleć)
- (intransitive) to think (to consider in one's head) [with ô (+ locative) ‘about what’]
- (intransitive) to think about
- (intransitive) to think (to be of the opinion)
Conjugation
editThis verb needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
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Further reading
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɘɕlɛt͡ɕ
- Rhymes:Polish/ɘɕlɛt͡ɕ/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
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- pl:Thinking
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- Rhymes:Silesian/ɪɕlɛt͡ɕ
- Rhymes:Silesian/ɪɕlɛt͡ɕ/2 syllables
- Silesian lemmas
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- szl:Thinking