poprawa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "poprawa"

Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from poprawić.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3] Compare Kashubian pòprawa, Silesian poprawa, and Carpathian Rusyn поправа (poprava).

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /pɔˈpra.va/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Syllabification: po‧pra‧wa
  • Homophone: Poprawa

Noun

poprawa f

  1. improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better) [with w (+ locative) ‘at what’]
    1. improvement (change in one's behavior for the better)
      Synonym: korekta
    2. improvement, recovery (change in one's health for the better)
  2. (obsolete) repair (fixing or repairing)
    Synonyms: naprawa, reperacja
  3. (obsolete) increase (act of making larger or higher in value)

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poprawa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 46 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 970th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “poprawa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) “prawy”, in Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  3. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “poprawa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “poprawa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 404

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Deverbal from poprawić. Compare Polish poprawa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔˈpra.va/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ava
  • Syllabification: po‧pra‧wa

Noun

poprawa f

  1. improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better)

Declension

Declension of poprawa
singular
nominative poprawa
genitive poprawy
dative poprawie
accusative poprawã
instrumental poprawōm
locative poprawie
vocative poprawo

Further reading