stosunek
Polish
editEtymology
editFrom stosować + -unek. Sense 7 and sense 6 are semantic loans from English relations, sense 8 is a semantic loan from English connections and contacts, sense 9 is a semantic loan from English terms. First attested in 1781.[1] Cognate with English stotting.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editstosunek m inan (diminutive stosuneczek)
- relation, relationship (manner in which two things may be associated) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what’]
- Synonym: relacja
- relation, relationship; attitude (manner in which and tone with which two people or things interact) [with do (+ genitive) ‘to what’], [with wobec (+ genitive) ‘towards what’]
- Synonyms: nastawienie, podejście
- (mathematics) relation, relationship (quotient obtained by dividing two numbers or two quantities belonging to a given set of numbers or quantities)
- Synonym: proporcja
- (obsolete) affair (illegimate romantic relation)
- Synonym: romans
- (obsolete, chemistry) equivalent
- Synonym: równoważnik
- (often in the plural) relation (act of intercourse) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’]
- (in the plural) relations, relationship (act of maintaining contact) [with z (+ instrumental) ‘with whom’], [with między (+ instrumental) ‘between whom’]
- Synonym: związek
- (in the plural) connections (people with whom one is acquainted who can offer help and influence)
- Synonym: powiązania
- (in the plural) terms (conditions; states or qualities)
- Synonym: warunki
Declension
editDeclension of stosunek
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | stosunek | stosunki |
genitive | stosunku | stosunków |
dative | stosunkowi | stosunkom |
accusative | stosunek | stosunki |
instrumental | stosunkiem | stosunkami |
locative | stosunku | stosunkach |
vocative | stosunku | stosunki |
Derived terms
editadjective
nouns
preposition
verbs
- stosunkować impf
Related terms
editadverb
noun
Descendants
editTrivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), stosunek is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 49 times in scientific texts, 46 times in news, 99 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 220 times, making it the 252nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
editFurther reading
edit- stosunek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- stosunek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “stosunek”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “stosunek”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 438
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- Polish terms suffixed with -unek
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- Rhymes:Polish/unɛk
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