swój

See also: swoj

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *svojь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /swɛj/, [swej]

Determiner

swój

  1. one’s (own), my (own), your (own), his (own), her (own), its (own), our (own), their (own) (refers to the subject of the verb)

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), swój”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), swój”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svojь, from Proto-Indo-European *swé. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronoun

swój

  1. reflexive-possessive pronoun one's own; my, his, her, its, our, your, their

Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Polish: swój

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish swój, from Proto-Slavic *svojь, from Proto-Indo-European *swé. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sfuj/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uj
  • Syllabification: swój

Pronoun

swój

  1. reflexive-possessive pronoun one's own; my, his, her, its, our, your, their

Declension

Alternative, archaic/stylized declension:

Derived terms

phrase

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), swój is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 209 times in scientific texts, 210 times in news, 277 times in essays, 302 times in fiction, and 190 times in plays, totaling 1188 times, making it the 33rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), swój”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990), swój”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 571

Further reading

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *svojь.

Determiner

swój

  1. one’s (own), my (own), his (own), her (own), its (own), our (own), your (own), their (own) (refers to the subject of the verb)

Declension

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