zadanie

See also: żądanie and zadanié

Old Polish

Etymology

From zadać + -anie. First attested in 1448–1450.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /zadaɲɛː/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /zadaɲe/

Noun

zadanie n

  1. verbal noun of zadać (to make, to cause)
    • 1895 [1448–1450], Mikołaj Suled, edited by Franciszek Piekosiński, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, Warka, page 53:
      Gdysz slodzeystwa... prze wyelgoscz grzecha a prze szadanye alybo ląkanye mąky (propter... inflictionem seu formidationem poenae) za grzech dopvsczony vlozoney... cząstokrocz skrytha bywayą
      [Gdyż złodziejstwa... prze wielgość grzecha a prze zadanie alibo lękanie męky (propter... inflictionem seu formidationem poenae) za grzech dopuszczony włożonej... częstokroć skryta bywają]
nouns
  • zadanek
  • zadawek
verbs

Descendants

  • Polish: zadanie
  • Silesian: zadanie

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish zadanie. zadać + -anie. For the semantic shift, compare English assignment.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zaˈda.ɲɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /zaˈda.ɲe/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɲɛ
  • Syllabification: za‧da‧nie

Noun

zadanie n (diminutive zadanko, related adjective zadaniowy)

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of zadać
  2. (countable) task, assignment (activity that one should complete)
  3. (countable) problem (question in a particular field, i.e. math, that needs solving)
  4. (countable, chess) developed position that allows one to checkmate their opponent in a certain number of moves (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension

Derived terms

verbs
  • stanął na wysokości zadania pf, stawać na wysokości zadania impf
adjective
  • zadaniowo
noun
  • zadaniowość
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zadanie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 56 times in news, 134 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 249 times, making it the 214th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “zadanie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 729

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish zadanie. By surface analysis, zadać + -anie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zaˈdaɲɛ/
  • Rhymes: -aɲɛ
  • Syllabification: za‧da‧nie

Noun

zadanie n

  1. verbal noun of zadać
  2. task, job
verbs

Further reading

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