potrzeba

== Old Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poterba, from *po- + *terba. First attested in the 14th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pɔtr̝ɛba/ IPA(key): (15th CE) /pɔtr̝ɛba/ === Noun === potrzeba f (attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca, Greater Poland, Masovia) need (that whose lack if felt; what is necessary) need, necessity (need to do something) interest, affair, matter (attested in Lesser Poland, Sieradz-Łęczyca) need (difficult state; indigence) service (act of being of assistance to someone) (attested in Masovia) need (what belongs to something is a necessary addition, a supplement) (attested in Masovia) use, utility ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Polish: potrzeba Silesian: potrzeba === References === Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “potrzeba”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN Mańczak, Witold (2017), “potrzeba”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “potrzeba”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish) B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “potrzeba”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN == Polish == === Alternative forms === potrzeb (Central Greater Poland, Kuyavia, Podegrodzie, Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin) potrza (Near Masovian, Łowicz) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish potrzeba. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛba Syllabification: po‧trze‧ba Homophone: Potrzeba === Noun === potrzeba f (countable) need (something necessary) [with genitive ‘for something’; or with żeby (+ infinitive) ‘to do what’] (countable) need (something without which something or someone cannot function) (uncountable) need (difficult situation) (countable, archaic) battle, war excursion Synonym: bitwa (countable, obsolete) interest, matter, affair Synonyms: interes, sprawa (in the plural, obsolete) tailor's, accessories (in the plural, obsolete) equipment, matter, affair Synonyms: przybory, sprzęt (countable, obsolete) service (act of being of assistance to someone) Synonym: obsługa (countable, Middle Polish) reserve, stockpile Synonym: zapas ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Trivia ==== According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), potrzeba is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 42 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 108 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 184 times, making it the 310th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === Verb === potrzeba impf (defective) (intransitive, impersonal) expresses the necessity or obligation of the following verb; it is needed, one ought to [with dative ‘for whom’; in addition, with infinitive ‘to do something’; or with genitive ‘what is needed’] Synonym: trzeba ==== Conjugation ==== === References === === Further reading === “potrzeba”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[11] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “potrzeba”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[12] (in Polish) Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “potrzeba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] Renata Bronikowska (11.01.2021), “POTRZEBA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century] Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “potrzeba”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “potrzeba”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “potrzeba”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 817 Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “potrzeba, (po)trzeba”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN == Silesian == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish potrzeba. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔˈtʂɛ.ba/ Rhymes: -ɛba Syllabification: po‧trze‧ba === Noun === potrzeba f need === Further reading === potrzeba in silling.org