istnieć

== Polish == === Etymology === From istny + -eć modelled on other intransitive verbs ending in -eć such as ładnieć or gęstnieć with an unexpected shift in meaning, as the expected meaning would be "to become real" not "to be real". First attested in the 19th century. Displaced istnąć. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈist.ɲɛt͡ɕ/ Rhymes: -istɲɛt͡ɕ Syllabification: ist‧nieć === Verb === istnieć impf (intransitive) to exist (to be a part of the world) Synonyms: być, egzystować (intransitive) to exist (to play an important role in some activity or domain; to influence or have an effect) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), istnieć is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 62 times in scientific texts, 14 times in news, 61 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 11 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 173 times, making it the 332nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === istnieć in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN istnieć in Polish dictionaries at PWN J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “istnieć”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 111 istnieć in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego