See also: zas and zás

Polish

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Etymology

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Clipping of zasię. Compare Czech zase and Kashubian zôs. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /zaɕ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈzaɕ/, /ˈzɒɕ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɕ
  • Syllabification: zaś

Particle

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zaś

  1. (literary, contrastive or elaborative) meanwhile, whereas, while, rather than
    Synonyms: natomiast, tymczasem, za to
  2. (literary) earlier
  3. (literary) after, afterwards; thereupon
    Synonyms: potem, później
  4. (colloquial, dialectal) used with some conjunctions for expressiveness

Adverb

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zaś (not comparable)

  1. (Middle Polish) just; again

Derived terms

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adverb

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zaś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 69 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 55 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 178 times, making it the 326th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zaś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zaś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 753

Further reading

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Silesian

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Etymology

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Clipping of Old Polish zasię.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈzaɕ/
  • Rhymes: -aɕ
  • Syllabification: zaś

Adverb

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zaś

  1. again
    Synonyms: juzaś, zasik

Particle

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zaś

  1. meanwhile, whereas, while

Further reading

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  • zas in dykcjonorz.eu
  • zaś in silling.org