jakoś

See also: jakos and jakòs

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From jako + . First attested in 1500–1547.[1] Compare Kashubian jakòs, Masurian jekosz, and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈja.kɔɕ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈja.kɔɕ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -akɔɕ
  • Syllabification: ja‧koś

Adverb

jakoś (not comparable)

  1. somehow (in some way)

Particle

jakoś

  1. somewhere around (approximately)
    Synonym: około
  2. (colloquial) for some reason
  3. (colloquial) kinda, somewhat
    Synonym: trochę

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jakoś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 12 times in essays, 24 times in fiction, and 51 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 88 times, making it the 721st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. jakoś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990), jakoś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 161

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

From jako + . Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjakɔɕ/
  • Rhymes: -akɔɕ
  • Syllabification: ja‧koś

Adverb

jakoś

  1. somehow

Particle

jakoś

  1. somewhere around (approximately)
  2. for some reason

Further reading

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