dokument

See also: Dokument

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch document.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dokument (plural dokumente)

1. document

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdokumɛnt]

Noun

dokument m inan

1. document
2. documentary

   přírodopisný dokument ― wildlife documentary

Declension

Declension of dokument (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	dokument	dokumenty
genitive	dokumentu	dokumentů
dative	dokumentu	dokumentům
accusative	dokument	dokumenty
vocative	dokumente	dokumenty
locative	dokumentu, dokumentě	dokumentech
instrumental	dokumentem	dokumenty

Related terms

• See docent

• dokumentace
• dokumentarista
• dokumentaristika
• dokumentární
• dokumentovat

 

Further reading

• dokument in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• dokument in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• dokument in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From Latin documentum, from docēre (“teach”).

Noun

dokument n (singular definite dokumentet, plural indefinite dokumenter)

1. document

Declension

Declension of dokument

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dokument	dokumentet	dokumenter	dokumenterne
genitive	dokuments	dokumentets	dokumenters	dokumenternes

References

• “dokument” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

German Dokument.

Noun

dokument (genitive dokumendi, partitive dokumenti)

1. document

Declension

Declension of dokument (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		dokument	dokumendid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	dokumendi
genitive			dokumentide
partitive		dokumenti	dokumente dokumentisid
illative		dokumenti dokumendisse	dokumentidesse dokumendesse
inessive		dokumendis	dokumentides dokumendes
elative		dokumendist	dokumentidest dokumendest
allative		dokumendile	dokumentidele dokumendele
adessive		dokumendil	dokumentidel dokumendel
ablative		dokumendilt	dokumentidelt dokumendelt
translative		dokumendiks	dokumentideks dokumendeks
terminative		dokumendini	dokumentideni
essive		dokumendina	dokumentidena
abessive		dokumendita	dokumentideta
comitative		dokumendiga	dokumentidega

Further reading

• “dokument”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• dokument in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin documentum.

Noun

dokument n (definite singular dokumentet, indefinite plural dokument or dokumenter, definite plural dokumenta or dokumentene)

1. a document

Derived terms

• dokumentere
• dokumentmappe

References

• “dokument” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin documentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʊkʉˈmɛnt/

Noun

dokument n (definite singular dokumentet, indefinite plural dokument, definite plural dokumenta)

1. a document

Derived terms

• dokumentmappe

References

• “dokument” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin documentum. First attested in 1564. Compare Silesian dokumynt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔˈku.mɛnt/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /dɔˈku.mɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -umɛnt
• Syllabification: do‧ku‧ment

Noun

dokument m inan (diminutive dokumencik, related adjective dokumentowy)

1. document (any official script)
2. document; identification (paper proving someone's identity)
3. document (object that is proof to the era in which it was created or to the genuineness of something)
4. (colloquial, film) documentary (documentary film) [+ o (locative) = about whom/what]

   Synonym: film dokumentalny

5. (computing) document (file that contains text)
6. (obsolete) assurance; confession
7. (obsolete) show; demonstration (act of demonstrating or proving something actively)

Usage notes

The nominative plural form dokumenta is obsolete.

Declension

Declension of dokument

	singular	plural
nominative	dokument	dokumenty/dokumenta
genitive	dokumentu	dokumentów
dative	dokumentowi	dokumentom
accusative	dokument	dokumenty/dokumenta
instrumental	dokumentem	dokumentami
locative	dokumencie	dokumentach
vocative	dokumencie	dokumenty/dokumenta

Descendants

• → Kashubian: dokùment
• → Masurian: dokumént

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dokument is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 13 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 55 times, making it the 1166th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• dokument in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dokument in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “DOKUMENT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 04.11.2016
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “dokument”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[3]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “dokument”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎^[4]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dokument”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 496

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dokùmenat (Bosnia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dokǔment/
• Hyphenation: do‧ku‧ment

Noun

dokùment m (Cyrillic spelling доку̀мент)

1. document

Declension

Declension of dokument

	singular	plural
nominative	dokùment	dokumenti
genitive	dokumenta	dokùmenātā
dative	dokumentu	dokumentima
accusative	dokument	dokumente
vocative	dokumente	dokumenti
locative	dokumentu	dokumentima
instrumental	dokumentom	dokumentima

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɔkument]

Noun

dokument m inan (genitive singular dokumentu, nominative plural dokumenty, genitive plural dokumentov, declension pattern of dub)

1. document

Declension

Declension of dokument

	singular	plural
nominative	dokument	dokumenty
genitive	dokumentu	dokumentov
dative	dokumentu	dokumentom
accusative	dokument	dokumenty
locative	dokumente	dokumentoch
instrumental	dokumentom	dokumentmi

References

• “dokument”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

dokument n

1. a document

Declension

Declension of dokument
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	dokument	dokumentet	dokument	dokumenten
Genitive	dokuments	dokumentets	dokuments	dokumentens

Related terms

• dokumentförstörare
• dokumenthantering

Further reading

• dokument in Svensk ordbok.