dlatego

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Univerbation of dla +‎ tego, literally “for that”. First attested in c. 1498. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /dlʲaːtɛːɡɔ/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /dlʲɒteɡɔ/ === Conjunction === dlatego (attested in Masovia) that's why, because of this, ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: dlatego, látego (Podhale, Pieniążkowice) Silesian: dlŏtygo === References === Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “dlatego”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Alternative forms === látego (Podhale, Pieniążkowice) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish dlatego. By surface analysis, univerbation of dla +‎ tego. Compare Kashubian dlôtegò and Slovincian dlotêwo. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ Syllabification: dla‧te‧go === Particle === dlatego that's why (Eastern Lublin, Krynice and Kryniczki, Przemyśl, San river, Northern Borderlands, Lithuania) synonym of jednak / przecież / mimo to === Conjunction === dlatego (obsolete) in order to Synonym: po to ==== Usage notes ==== Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dlatego is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 67 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 93 times in essays, 38 times in fiction, and 68 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 278 times, making it the 184th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “dlatego”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “dlatego”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish) “DLATEGO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 31.10.2007 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “dlatego”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “dlatego”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dlatego”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 459 Jan Karłowicz (1900), “dla tego”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 325