See also: usluga and usługą

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Deverbal from usłużyć. First attested in the 16th century.[1] Compare Kashubian ùsłëga and Silesian usuga.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /uˈswu.ɡa/
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  • Rhymes: -uɡa
  • Syllabification: u‧słu‧ga

Noun edit

usługa f

  1. (economics) service (paid activity consisting in performing a task)
  2. service (act of doing something for someone for which they ask or which they need)
  3. (economics, in the plural) service sector (sector of the economy that covers the zone of activities useful to the population)
  4. (obsolete, politics) support (assistance which, in the event of a dispute between two states, is provided by a third state to bring the dispute to an end; more generally: acting in someone's interest)
  5. (obsolete) service (people providing service)
    Synonym: służba
  6. (obsolete) favor
    Synonym: przysługa
  7. (obsolete) merit, credit, contribution
    Synonym: zasługa

Declension edit

Related terms edit

interjection
verbs

Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), usługa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 45 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 69 times, making it the 936th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “usługa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “usługa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 639

Further reading edit