kiedyś

Polish

Etymology

From kiedy +‎ -ś. First attested in 1560.[1] Compare Kashubian czedës, Masurian kiedisz, and Silesian kedyś.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkjɛ.dɨɕ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈkjɛ.dɨɕ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛdɨɕ
  • Syllabification: kie‧dyś

Adverb

kiedyś (not comparable)

  1. sometime (at some unknown or unspecified point in time)
    Synonym: kiedy
    1. at one time, formerly, once, approximately used to
      Synonyms: dawniej, ongi, ongiś, niegdyś
      Kiedyś mogłem przejść dziesięć mil dziennie, ale teraz już nie. ― At one time, I could walk ten miles in a day, but I can't any longer.
    2. sometime, someday, one day
      Synonym: któregoś dnia
      Kiedyś w końcu wygram. ― Some day I will finally win.

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kiedyś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 6 times in essays, 33 times in fiction, and 45 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 88 times, making it the 722nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References
  1. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kiedyś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “kiedyś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 175

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