nie ma
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Polish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Clipping of nie masz.[1] First attested in the first half of the 20th century.
Pronunciation[edit]
Phrase[edit]
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nie, ma. [+genitive]
- (idiomatic) there is no, there are no [+genitive]
Usage notes[edit]
(1): is entirely regular.
(2): is only irregular in the present tense, all other forms are a combination of nie and być (appropriately conjugated), as follows: there wasn't → nie było; there won't be → nie będzie; there wouldn't be → nie byłoby.
Derived terms[edit]
phrases
Trivia[edit]
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nie ma is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 33 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 35 times in essays, 80 times in fiction, and 152 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 304 times, making it the 166th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nie ma”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “nie ma”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 280