czasem

Polish

Etymology

Instrumental singular of czas. First attested in the 18th century.[1] Compare Kashubian czasã, Masurian casém, Silesian czasym, and Slovincian czasã.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂa.sɛm/
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  • Rhymes: -asɛm
  • Syllabification: cza‧sem

Adverb

czasem (not comparable)

  1. every now and then, from time to time, occasionally, sometimes
    Synonyms: co jakiś czas, czasami, nieraz, niekiedy
  2. sometimes (in one or another case against the background of many others)
    Synonym: czasami

Particle

czasem

  1. (with czy) expresses the speaker's certainty of their statement; happen to, isn't?
    Near-synonyms: aby, czasami, przypadkiem

Noun

czasem m inan

  1. instrumental singular of czas

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czasem is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 8 times in essays, 26 times in fiction, and 41 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 100 times, making it the 627th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References
  1. Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “czasem”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “czasem”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 59

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