przypadek

Meaning

1. chance, accident; coincidence (situation which occurred that could not have been predicted)
2. event, instance, case (something that happened)
3. case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms)
4. case (person representing said condition or set of symptoms)
5. (obsolete) adventure; event
6. (obsolete) facts; events (that which occurred in someone's life)
7. characteristic (that which defines a person's features or behaviors)
8. shift (established order of performing duties)
9. fate
10. assets, income (that which belongs to someone)
11. tribute, tax
12. will; regulations, commandments (that what someone wants)
13. property (that which belongs to or is located in a particular area)
14. addition, adjacency

Hyphenated as

przy‧pa‧dek

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pʂɨˈpa.dɛk/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish przypadek. By surface analysis, przypadać + -ek. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Latin cāsus, which displaced spadek. Compare Czech případek, Kashubian przëpôdk, and Russian припа́док (pripádok). Further compare Hungarian eset.

Sentences

Rzucać im przeznaczenia , których treścią byłby czysty przypadek ?

Throw them destinies, the content of which would be pure coincidence?