działalność

== Polish == === Etymology === From działalny +‎ -ość. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from German Tätigkeit and French activité. First attested in 1802. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /d͡ʑaˈwal.nɔɕt͡ɕ/ Rhymes: -alnɔɕt͡ɕ Syllabification: dzia‧łal‧ność === Noun === działalność f operation (activity undertaken by someone for a specific purpose) activity (influence of certain natural phenomena or geographical objects) activity, operation (act of functioning) (obsolete, originall) activeness (ability to act) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), działalność is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 30 times in scientific texts, 45 times in news, 107 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 185 times, making it the 306th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “działalność”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “działalność”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “działalność”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “działalność”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 633