uwaga

== Polish == === Etymology === Deverbal from uważyć. First attested in 1656–1688. Compare Kashubian ùwôga and Silesian uwŏga. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aɡa Syllabification: u‧wa‧ga === Noun === uwaga f (uncountable) attention (concentration on something) Synonyms: koncentracja, skupienie, natężenie (uncountable) attention (ability to concentrate) Synonyms: koncentracja, skupienie, natężenie (countable) remark (expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something; observation, comment, or statement) Synonym: komentarz (countable) remark (light critique) (countable) remark (note entered in a student's notebook by a teacher) (countable, obsolete) cause Synonym: przyczyna (Middle Polish) caution, prudence Synonyms: roztropność, uważność ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Trivia ==== According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), uwaga is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 58 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 106 times in essays, 32 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 266 times, making it the 192nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === Interjection === uwaga! attention!; warning!; caution! watch out! === References === === Further reading === uwaga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN uwaga in Polish dictionaries at PWN Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “uwaga”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “uwaga”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “uwaga”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 409