klasa

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈklasa]
• Rhymes: -asa

Noun

klasa f

1. (informal, archaic) class (group of students taught together)

   Synonym: třída

Declension

Declension of klasa (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	klasa	klasy
genitive	klasy	klas
dative	klase	klasám
accusative	klasu	klasy
vocative	klaso	klasy
locative	klase	klasách
instrumental	klasou	klasami

Related terms

Related terms

• deklasovat
• klasický
• klasicismus
• klasicista
• klasicistický
• klasicistní
• klasifikace
• klasifikátor
• klasifikovat
• klasik
• klasika

Further reading

• “klasa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “klasa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Icelandic

Noun

klasa

1. inflection of klasi:
   1. indefinite accusative
   2. indefinite dative singular
   3. indefinite genitive

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish klasa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.sa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun

klasa f

1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
2. (education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
3. grade, form (students in such a level)
4. class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)
5. (sociology) class (social grouping)
6. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)

Declension

Declension of klasa

	singular	plural
nominative	klasa	klasë
genitive	klasë	klas/klasów
dative	klase	klasóm
accusative	klasã	klasë
instrumental	klasą	klasama
locative	klase	klasach
vocative	klaso	klasë

Further reading

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “klasa”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 71
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “klasa”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “klasa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Polish

Alternative forms

• klassa (Middle Polish)

Etymology

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Klasse or French classe, ultimately from Latin classis. Sense 13 is a semantic loan from English class. First attested in 1688.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.sa/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.sa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun

klasa f (related adjective klasowy, abbreviation kl.)

1. (countable) class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)

   Synonym: kategoria

2. (countable, education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)

   Synonym: oddział

3. (countable) grade, form (students in such a level)
4. (countable) class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)
5. (countable) class (subject of study in art education at a specific level)
6. (countable, sociology) class (social grouping)

   Synonym: warstwa

7. (uncountable) class (group of entities distinguished because of the quality or level assigned to them in relation to other objects of the same type)
8. (countable) class (degree in a closed hierarchy of objects of the same type)

   Synonym: stopień

9. (countable, taxonomy) class (rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank)
10. (countable, sports) class, grade, rank (type or level of sports competition)
11. (countable) class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)
12. (uncountable) class (admirable behavior; elegance)

    Synonym: kultura

14. (countable, object-oriented programming) class (set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.)
15. (countable, set theory) class (collection of sets definable by a shared property)

    Synonym: zbiór

16. (countable) class (degree of technical value of objects as assessed by experts)

    Synonym: jakość

17. (in the plural, playground games) hopscotch (child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground)
18. (in the plural, obsolete) wallball; suicide (game in which a ball is thrown against a wall with increasing difficulty)
19. (countable, obsolete) class; circle (group of people with shared interests)
20. (countable, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly in the plural)gymnasium, middle school

    Synonym: gimnazjum

21. (countable, obsolete) class (lesson)

    Synonym: lekcja

22. (obsolete) grade (mark received in school determining how well one performed at a task)

    Synonym: ocena

23. (obsolete) income tax

    Synonym: podatek dochodowy

Declension

Declension of klasa

	singular	plural
nominative	klasa	klasy
genitive	klasy	klas
dative	klasie	klasom
accusative	klasę	klasy
instrumental	klasą	klasami
locative	klasie	klasach
vocative	klaso	klasy

Descendants

• → Kashubian: klasa

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), klasa (noun) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 32 times in news, 41 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 114 times, making it the 534th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Adjective

klasa (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. first class (of high quality)

   Synonyms: pierwsza klasa, prima sort

Adverb

klasa (not comparable)

1. in a first class manner

   Synonyms: pierwsza klasa, prima sort

Derived terms

adjectives

• klasy B
• pierwsza klasa

 

nouns

• gospodarz klasy
• klasa B
• klasa biznes
• klasa dla siebie
• klasa zerowa
• klasówka
• zabytek klasy zerowej

 

verbs

• przepuścić do następnej klasy pf, przepuszczać do następnej klasy impf
• siedzieć rok w tej samej klasie impf
• zagrać w klasy pf, grać w klasy impf

 

Related terms

adjectives

• aklasowy
• bezklasowy

 

Further reading

• klasa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• klasa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “klassa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “klassa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “klasa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 349

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From German Klasse, from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klǎsa/
• Hyphenation: kla‧sa

Noun

klàsa f (Cyrillic spelling кла̀са)

1. class (all meanings)

Declension

Declension of klasa

	singular	plural
nominative	klàsa	klase
genitive	klase	klásā
dative	klasi	klasama
accusative	klasu	klase
vocative	klaso	klase
locative	klasi	klasama
instrumental	klasom	klasama

Derived terms

• klȁsnī

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

klasa (Cyrillic spelling класа)

1. genitive singular of klas

References

• “klasa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Klasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkla.sa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: kla‧sa

Noun

klasa f

1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
2. (education) grade, form (level of primary and secondary education)
3. class, classroom (room, often in a school, where classes take place)

   Synonym: zal

4. (sociology) class (social grouping)
5. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)

Declension

Declension of klasa

	singular	plural
nominative	klasa	klasy
genitive	klasy	klas
dative	klasie	klasōm
accusative	klasã	klasy
instrumental	klasōm	klasami/klasōma
locative	klasie	klasach
vocative	klaso	klasy

Further reading

• klasa in silling.org

Slovene

Noun

klasa

1. genitive singular of klas