Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛ.jɔn/
- Rhymes: -ɛjɔn
- Syllabification: re‧jon
Noun
rejon m inan (related adjective rejonowy)
- area (place that is distinctive geographically, socially, economically or otherwise)
- area (people living in such a place)
- district (area designated administratively for the purposes of organizing and managing a specific activity)
- district (office managing such an area)
- district (people managing such an area)
- area (place that is part of something)
- (literary) area (sphere of interests)
- Synonym: sfera
Declension
More information singular, plural ...
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singular |
plural |
nominative |
rejon |
rejony |
genitive |
rejonu |
rejonów |
dative |
rejonowi |
rejonom |
accusative |
rejon |
rejony |
instrumental |
rejonem |
rejonami |
locative |
rejonie |
rejonach |
vocative |
rejonie |
rejony |
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Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rejon is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 53 times in news, 29 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 97 times, making it the 650th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[6]
References
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “rejon”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “rejon”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
Dziennik Departamentowy Krakowski (in Polish), number 64, 1813 September 2, page 621
Ida Kurcz (1990) “rejon”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 488