ministerstwo

Polish

Etymology

From minister +‎ -stwo. First attested in 1811.[1] Compare Kashubian minysterstwò.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mi.ɲisˈtɛr.stfɔ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛrstfɔ
  • Syllabification: mi‧nis‧ter‧stwo

Noun

ministerstwo n (abbreviation min. or minist.)

  1. ministry (government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister)
    Synonym: resort
  2. ministry (building with such a department)
  3. (obsolete) position or function of a minister

Declension
Declension of ministerstwo
singular plural
nominative ministerstwo ministerstwa
genitive ministerstwa ministerstw
dative ministerstwu ministerstwom
accusative ministerstwo ministerstwa
instrumental ministerstwem ministerstwami
locative ministerstwie ministerstwach
vocative ministerstwo ministerstwa

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ministerstwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 3 times in scientific texts, 49 times in news, 21 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 80 times, making it the 806th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References
  1. Johann Friedrich Dorn (181) Nauka nayważniejszych działań w piwowarstwie i gorzelnictwie i i sądzenie o nich (in Polish), page 9
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “ministerstwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 249

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