dziewczyna

See also: dziewczyną

Polish

Etymology

From dziewka + -yna. Compare Slovak dievčina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʑɛfˈt͡ʂɨ.na/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /d͡ʑɛfˈt͡ʂɨ.na/
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  • Rhymes: -ɨna
  • Syllabification: dziew‧czy‧na

Noun

dziewczyna f (diminutive dziewczynka, related adjective dziewczęcy or dziewczyński)

  1. girl (young woman)
    Coordinate term: chłopak
  2. girlfriend (female romantic partner)
    Coordinate term: chłopak
  3. (dated) girl (female servant; a maid)

Declension

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Derived terms

nouns
  • dziewczyna jak malina

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dziewczyna is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 0 times in essays, 63 times in fiction, and 37 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 105 times, making it the 590th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990), dziewczyna”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 103

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