kierownictwo

Polish

Etymology

From kierownik +‎ -ctwo. First attested in 1811.[1] Compare Kashubian czerownictwò.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kjɛ.rɔvˈɲi.t͡stfɔ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -it͡stfɔ
  • Syllabification: kie‧row‧ni‧ctwo

Noun

kierownictwo n

  1. (uncountable) management, guidance, direction (act of managing people, companies, or institutions) [with nad (+ instrumental) ‘over what’]
    Synonyms: kierowanie, zarządzanie
  2. (countable) management, guidance, direction (group of people performing such managing)
    Synonyms: dyrekcja, szefostwo, naczalstwo
  3. (countable) management, guidance, direction (building where such managing takes place)

Declension

Declension of kierownictwo
singular plural
nominative kierownictwo kierownictwa
genitive kierownictwa kierownictw
dative kierownictwu kierownictwom
accusative kierownictwo kierownictwa
instrumental kierownictwem kierownictwami
locative kierownictwie kierownictwach
vocative kierownictwo kierownictwa
verbs

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kierownictwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 35 times in news, 27 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 69 times, making it the 931st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Gazeta Lwowska (in Polish), number 41, 20 August 1811, page 1011
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kierownictwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 176

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