wiadomo

Polish

Etymology

From wiadomy + -o. First attested in the 16th century.[1] Compare Kashubian wiadomò and Silesian wiadōmo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vjaˈdɔ.mɔ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /vjaˈdɔ.mɔ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔmɔ
  • Syllabification: wia‧do‧mo

Verb

wiadomo impf (defective)

  1. (impersonal) it is known [+ o (locative) = about what] [+dative = who knows] [+accusative = what is known]
    Nic mi na ten temat nie wiadomo.I don't know anything about it.

Conjugation

Derived terms

phrases
  • o ile wiadomo
proverbs
adjectives
nouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wiadomo (verb) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 27 times in news, 34 times in essays, 27 times in fiction, and 21 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 133 times, making it the 454th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

Particle

wiadomo

  1. needless to say

Adverb

wiadomo (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) consciously, awarely
    Synonym: (obsolete) wiadomie

References

  1. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wiadomo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “wiadomo (verb)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 660

Further reading

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