jakiś

See also: jakis

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From jaki +‎ .[1] First attested in 1534.[2] Compare Kashubian jaczis, Silesian jakiś, and Slovincian jakjysz.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈja.kiɕ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -akiɕ
  • Syllabification: ja‧kiś

Pronoun

jakiś

  1. some; unspecified member of the category described by the following word
    Synonyms: jaki, jeden, pewien
    W ogrodzie widziałem jakieś zwierzę.
    I saw some animal in the garden. (and I'm not sure what it was)
    Jeśli będziesz w sklepie, to kup jakąś herbatę.
    If you visit a store, buy some tea. (any tea will do)

Particle

jakiś

  1. (colloquial) used to express doubt on the usage of a term on the speaker's part; kinda, sorta
    Ona jest jakaś niemiła.She's kinda mean.
  2. (colloquial) used to express doubt on the amount on the speaker's part; about
    Synonyms: jaki, gdzieś
    Ma jakiś litr.It has about a liter.

Declension

In the accusative, the form jakiegoś is used for masculine personal and masculine animate nouns, while jakiś is used for masculine inanimate nouns.

Derived terms

pronoun
  • (obsolete) jakiści
  • (nonstandard) jakiściś

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jakiś is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 65 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 71 times in essays, 175 times in fiction, and 185 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 500 times, making it the 89th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965), “jakiś”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “jakiś”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “jakiś”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 160

Further reading

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From jaki +‎ . Compare Polish jakiś and Kashubian jaczis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈja.kiɕ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -akiɕ
  • Syllabification: ja‧kiś

Pronoun

jakiś

  1. some; unspecified member of the category described by the following word
    Synonyms: jedyn, (Cieszyn) kerysi, (Cieszyn) kerysik

Further reading