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zakończenie

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Polish

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Etymology

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From zakończyć +‎ -enie. First attested in 1644.[1] Compare Silesian zakōńczynie.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /za.kɔɲˈt͡ʂɛ.ɲɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɲɛ
  • Syllabification: za‧koń‧cze‧nie

Noun

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zakończenie n

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of zakończyć
  2. (countable) end, ending, completion (last part of something in time)
    Synonym: koniec
  3. (countable) end, ending (last part of an object)

Declension

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zakończenie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 12 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 865th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Grzegorz Knapski (1644) “zakończenie”, in Thesavri Polonolatinograeci Gregorii Cnapii (in Polish), Cracoviae: Sumptu & Typis Francisci Caesarij
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zakończenie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 735

Further reading

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