Polish

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Etymology

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From współ- +‎ praca. First attested in 1832.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fspuwˈpra.t͡sa/
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  • Rhymes: -at͡sa
  • Syllabification: współ‧pra‧ca

Noun

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współpraca f

  1. cooperation (work done together with someone) [with między (+ instrumental) ‘between whom’], [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’]
    Synonyms: (obsolete) spółpraca, współdziałanie
    we współpracy zin cooperation with
  2. cooperation (performing tasks that harm the country or its citizens, assigned by the occupation authorities, an imposed government or a criminal organization) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’]
    Synonym: (obsolete) spółpraca
  3. cooperation (functioning together with other elements as part of a whole organism or machine)
    Synonym: (obsolete) spółpraca

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), współpraca is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 48 times in news, 36 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 98 times, making it the 649th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

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  1. ^ Gazeta Wielkiego Xięstwa Poznańskiego (in Polish), number 226, 1832 September 27, page 1200
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “współpraca”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 683

Further reading

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  NODES
Done 1
eth 2
News 1