uwaga

See also: uwagą

Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from uważyć. First attested in 1656–1688.[1] Compare Kashubian ùwôga and Silesian uwŏga.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /uˈva.ɡa/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /uˈvɒ.ɡa/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɡa
  • Syllabification: u‧wa‧ga

Noun

uwaga f

  1. (uncountable) attention (concentration on something)
    Synonyms: koncentracja, skupienie, natężenie
  2. (uncountable) attention (ability to concentrate)
    Synonyms: koncentracja, skupienie, natężenie
  3. (countable) remark (expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something; observation, comment, or statement)
    Synonym: komentarz
  4. (countable) remark (light critique)
  5. (countable) remark (note entered in a student's notebook by a teacher)
  6. (countable, obsolete) cause
    Synonym: przyczyna
  7. (Middle Polish) caution, prudence
    Synonyms: roztropność, uważność

Declension
Declension of uwaga
singular plural
nominative uwaga uwagi
genitive uwagi uwag
dative uwadze uwagom
accusative uwagę uwagi
instrumental uwagą uwagami
locative uwadze uwagach
vocative uwago uwagi

Derived terms
adjective
verbs
adverb
nouns
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), uwaga is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 58 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 106 times in essays, 32 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 266 times, making it the 192nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

Interjection

uwaga!

  1. attention!; warning!; caution! watch out!

References
  1. “UWAGA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.05.2010
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “uwaga”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 645

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