Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From bieżeć +‎ -ący. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from German laufend, French courant, and English current.[1] First attested in 1500–1547.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔnt͡sɘ
  • Syllabification: bie‧żą‧cy

Adjective

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bieżący (not comparable, derived adverb bieżąco, abbreviation b.)

  1. current (existing or occurring at the moment)
    Synonym: obecny
  2. then, contemporary, contemporaneous (at the same time as other events)

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Collocations

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), bieżący is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 307 times in news, 59 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 373 times, making it the 132nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

Participle

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bieżący (active adjectival)

  1. (archaic) active adjectival participle of bieżeć

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “bieżący”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bieżący, bieżąc”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “bieżący”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 25

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