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Etymology

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From zainteresować +‎ -anie. First attested in 1797.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /za.in.tɛ.rɛ.sɔˈva.ɲɛ/
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  • Rhymes: -aɲɛ
  • Syllabification: za‧in‧te‧re‧so‧wa‧nie

Noun

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zainteresowanie n

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of zainteresować
  2. (uncountable) interest, curiosity (want to learn more about something) [with instrumental ‘in whom/what’]
    Synonym: ciekawość
  3. (countable) interest (great attention and concern from someone; attraction)
    Synonyms: pociąg, sympatia
  4. (countable) interest (activity to which one devotes a lot of time and resources)
    Synonyms: amatorstwo, hobby, konik, pasja, zajawka, zamiłowanie
    Leksykografia to jedno z moich zainteresowań.Lexicography is one of my interests.

Declension

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adjective

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zainteresowanie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 20 times in news, 21 times in essays, 11 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 72 times, making it the 902nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), number 73, 1797, page 2
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zainteresowanie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 732

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