procent

Danish

Etymology

From German Prozent.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [pʁ̥oˈsɛnˀd̥]

Noun

procent c (singular definite procenten, plural indefinite procenter)

  1. percent

Inflection
Declension of procent
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative procent procenten procenter procenterne
genitive procents procentens procenters procenternes

Following a number, numeral or other quantity specification:

Declension of procent
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative procent procenten procent procenterne
genitive procents procentens procents procenternes

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

procent n (plural procenten, diminutive procentje n)

  1. percent

Descendants
  • → Caribbean Javanese: persèn, prosèn
  • → Indonesian: prosen

See also

Kashubian

Alternative forms
  • procãt (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish procent.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔt͡sɛnt/
  • Syllabification: pro‧cent

Noun

procent m inan

  1. percent (one part per hundred; one percent, represented with the symbol %)
    Synonym: rińta
  2. (banking) percent (annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend)
    Synonym: rińta
  3. percent (percentage, a proportion, especially per hundred)
    Synonym: rińta

Further reading
  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “procąt”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego‎ (in Kashubian), page 161
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “procent”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎, volume 2, page 628
  • “procent”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latin

Verb

procent

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of procō

Masurian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish procént.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈprɔt͡sɛnt]
  • Syllabification: pro‧cent

Noun

procent m inan (diminutive procenczik)

  1. percent (one part per hundred; one percent, represented with the symbol %)
  2. percent (percentage, a proportion, especially per hundred)

Further reading
  • Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “procent”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 7, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 15-16

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent.[1][2][3] First attested in the 18th century.[4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.t͡sɛnt/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.t͡sent/, /ˈprɔ.t͡sɛ̃t/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔt͡sɛnt
  • Syllabification: pro‧cent

Noun

procent m inan (diminutive procencik, abbreviation proc.)

  1. percent (one part per hundred; one percent, represented with the symbol %)
    Synonym: odsetek
  2. (banking) percent (annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend)
    Synonym: oprocentowanie
  3. percent (percentage, a proportion, especially per hundred)

Declension
Declension of procent
singular plural
nominative procent procenty
genitive procenta/procentu procentów
dative procentowi procentom
accusative procent procenty
instrumental procentem procentami
locative procencie procentach
vocative procencie procenty

Derived terms
adjective
adverb
adjective
adverbs

Descendants

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), procent is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 58 times in scientific texts, 79 times in news, 153 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 295 times, making it the 803rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “procent”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “procent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  3. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “procent”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  4. Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “procent”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “procent”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 434

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent.

Noun

procent n (plural procente)

  1. percent

Declension
Declension of procent
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) procent procentul (niște) procente procentele
genitive/dative (unui) procent procentului (unor) procente procentelor
vocative procentule procentelor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms
  • pròcenat

Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent, ultimately from Latin per centum.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /prǒt͡sent/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧cent

Noun

pròcent m (Cyrillic spelling про̀цент)

  1. percent
  2. percentage

Declension
Declension of procent
singular plural
nominative pròcent procenti
genitive procenta pròcenātā
dative procentu procentima
accusative procent procente
vocative procente procenti
locative procentu procentima
instrumental procentom procentima

See also

References
  • “procent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /prʊˈsɛnt/
  • audio (Gotland)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

procent c

  1. percent
    Synonym: hundradel

Declension
Declension of procent 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative procent procenten procent procenten
Genitive procents procentens procents procentens

Derived terms

References
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