See also: miedzy and między-

Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish miedzy. The nasal vowel was added later due to the preceding m-.[1] Doublet of miedzy (locative of miedza).

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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między

  1. denotes movement; to in between [+accusative]
    Synonym: pomiędzy
    Antonym: spomiędzy
  2. denotes location; between [+instrumental]
    Synonyms: pomiędzy, pośród, śród, wpośród
  3. denotes objects mutually affected by something; between, among [+instrumental]
    Synonyms: pomiędzy, na linii, wśród
  4. between (in transit from (one to the other, or connecting places)) [+instrumental]
  5. denotes result of division; between [+accusative]
  6. denotes individual of a group; among; between [+instrumental]
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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), między is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 99 times in scientific texts, 101 times in news, 48 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 143rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “między”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “między”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 245

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