See also: sie, Sie, šie, Sië, and -sie

Old PolishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sen, from Proto-Indo-European *swé.

PronounEdit

się

  1. reflexive pronoun; oneself, self
  2. (in the, dative) used for emphasis; now
  3. each other, one another
  4. one's own home

DeclensionEdit

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

DescendantsEdit

  • Polish: się

ReferencesEdit

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Old Polish się, from Proto-Slavic *sę.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɕɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes:
  • Syllabification: się

PronounEdit

się (genitive and accusative cases)

  1. Reflexive pronoun; oneself, self
  2. each other, one another
  3. one's own home
    Wracam do siebieI'm going back to my place.

DeclensionEdit

Alternative formsEdit

ParticleEdit

się

  1. used to form impersonal present or future tense
    Robi się późno.It's getting late.
    Mówi się, że...It is said that...

TriviaEdit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), się is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1569 times in scientific texts, 1321 times in news, 1287 times in essays, 2614 times in fiction, and 2511 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 9302 times, making it the 4th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “się”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 527

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