jednostka

See also: jednostką

Polish

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jednostka

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Etymology

From jedność +‎ -ka.^[1]^[2] First attested in 1801.^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jɛdˈnɔs.tka/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɔstka
Syllabification: jed‧nos‧tka

Noun

jednostka f (related adjective jednostkowy)

(literary) individual, individuum, entity, body (person considered alone)
Synonym: indywiduum
(by extension) individual, individuum (single representative of a species)
Synonym: osobnik
unit (organized group comprising people in uniform who perform particular tasks)
1. (military) unit (group of soldiers)
  Synonym: oddział
unit (headquarters of such a group)
(bureaucracy) unit (independent branch of a public institution established to conduct a specific type of activity)
(military) unit (individual ship)
Synonym: statek
(metrology, sciences) unit (standard measure of a quantity)
unit (the number one)
Synonym: jedynka

Declension

Declension of jednostka

	singular	plural
nominative	jednostka	jednostki
genitive	jednostki	jednostek
dative	jednostce	jednostkom
accusative	jednostkę	jednostki
instrumental	jednostką	jednostkami
locative	jednostce	jednostkach
vocative	jednostko	jednostki

Derived terms

nouns

Descendants

→ Kashubian: jednostka
Masurian: jednostkä
→ Silesian: jednostka

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jednostka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 41 times in news, 33 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 117 times, making it the 516th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[4]

References

^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “jeden”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “jednostka”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Fortuna, czyli odmiana szczęścia przez losy wierszem wypadaiąca. (in Polish), 1801, page 6
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “jednostka”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 164