technika

Czech

Etymology

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Technik or French technique, ultimately from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛxnɪka]

• Audio:

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Noun

technika f

1. technology (body of tools)
2. technique (way of accomplishing a task)

Declension

Declension of technika (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	technika	techniky
genitive	techniky	technik
dative	technice	technikám
accusative	techniku	techniky
vocative	techniko	techniky
locative	technice	technikách
instrumental	technikou	technikami

Derived terms

• technický

 

Related terms

• technik
• technikálie
• techno
• technolog
• technologický
• technologie

 

Noun

technika

1. genitive/accusative singular of technik

Further reading

• “technika”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “technika”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “technika”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Technik, from French technique, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art, handicraft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛçnikɒ], [ˈtɛxnikɒ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tech‧ni‧ka
• Rhymes: -kɒ

Noun

technika (countable and uncountable, plural technikák)

1. technique (a way of accomplishing a task that is not immediately obvious)
2. technology (the organization of knowledge for practical purposes)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	technika	technikák
accusative	technikát	technikákat
dative	technikának	technikáknak
instrumental	technikával	technikákkal
causal-final	technikáért	technikákért
translative	technikává	technikákká
terminative	technikáig	technikákig
essive-formal	technikaként	technikákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	technikában	technikákban
superessive	technikán	technikákon
adessive	technikánál	technikáknál
illative	technikába	technikákba
sublative	technikára	technikákra
allative	technikához	technikákhoz
elative	technikából	technikákból
delative	technikáról	technikákról
ablative	technikától	technikáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	technikáé	technikáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	technikáéi	technikákéi

Possessive forms of technika
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	technikám	technikáim
2nd person sing.	technikád	technikáid
3rd person sing.	technikája	technikái
1st person plural	technikánk	technikáink
2nd person plural	technikátok	technikáitok
3rd person plural	technikájuk	technikáik

Derived terms

• technikai
• technikájú
• technikás

 

Compound words with prefixes

• aerotechnika
• agrotechnika
• elektrotechnika
• pirotechnika
• politechnika
• pszichotechnika
• videotechnika

 

Compound words with independent words

• beszédtechnika
• biztonságtechnika
• csomagolástechnika
• haditechnika
• híradástechnika
• irányítástechnika
• irodatechnika
• játéktechnika
• méréstechnika
• nyomdatechnika
• rádiótechnika
• sajtótechnika
• számítástechnika
• színpadtechnika
• vákuumtechnika
• verstechnika
• vezetéstechnika
• világítástechnika

Further reading

• technika in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish technika.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

Noun

technika f (related adjective techniczny or technikòwi)

1. technique (method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge)
2. technology (knowledge or study on such methods)

Related terms

adverbs

• techniczno

 

nouns

• technik

 

Further reading

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “technika”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “technika”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]

Lithuanian

Etymology

Internationalism; ultimately from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós).

Noun

tèchnika f (plural tèchnikos) stress pattern 1

1. technology
2. technique

Declension

Declension of tèchnika

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	tèchnika	tèchnikos
genitive (kilmininkas)	tèchnikos	tèchnikų
dative (naudininkas)	tèchnikai	tèchnikoms
accusative (galininkas)	tèchniką	tèchnikas
instrumental (įnagininkas)	tèchnika	tèchnikomis
locative (vietininkas)	tèchnikoje	tèchnikose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	tèchnika	tèchnikos

See also

• technikas
• technologija

Further reading

• “technika”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “technika”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

Polish

Etymology 1

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Technik or French technique, ultimately from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós). First attested in 1801.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (prescriptive) /ˈtɛx.ɲi.ka/, (colloquial) /tɛxˈɲi.ka/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ɛxɲika, -ika
• Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

Noun

technika f (related adjective techniczny, abbreviation techn. or tech.)

1. technique (method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge)

   Synonym: metoda

2. technology (knowledge or study on such methods)
3. technique (application of such methods)
4. technique (practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill)

   Synonym: metoda

5. (education) technique (subject teaching such methods in school)

   Synonym: prace ręczne

6. (education, obsolete) Synonym of technikum

Declension

Declension of technika

	singular	plural
nominative	technika	techniki
genitive	techniki	technik
dative	technice	technikom
accusative	technikę	techniki
instrumental	techniką	technikami
locative	technice	technikach
vocative	techniko	techniki

Derived terms

nouns

• agrotechnika
• antropotechnika
• balneotechnika

 

Descendants

• → Kashubian: technika
• → Silesian: technika

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), technika is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 31 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 775th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

Noun

technika m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of technik

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

Noun

technika n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of technikum

Further reading

• technika in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• technika in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “technika”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “technika”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 37

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish technika.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛxˈɲi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: tech‧ni‧ka

Noun

technika f (related adjective techniczny)

1. technique (method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge)
2. technology (knowledge or study on such methods)

Related terms

adverbs

• technicznie

 

Further reading

• technika in silling.org