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pisania

Pisania is a term most often encountered in Polish grammar, where it is related to the verb pisać, meaning to write. In standard usage, pisania is not a separate lexical item; it is a morphological form derived from the noun pisanie, which denotes the act of writing.

Pisania appears as the genitive singular of pisanie and is used in phrases expressing the act of

Outside Polish grammar discussions, pisania does not have a widely recognized independent meaning. When encountered in

writing
in
a
dependent
construction.
Examples
include
czas
pisania
(the
time
of
writing)
and
bez
pisania
(without
writing).
The
form
also
arises
in
various
compound
expressions
where
the
sense
is
“of
writing”
or
“pertaining
to
writing.”
non-Polish
contexts,
it
is
typically
part
of
a
larger
Polish
phrase
or
may
appear
as
a
proper
noun
in
specific
names.
The
root
verb
from
which
it
derives
is
pisać,
meaning
to
write,
and
its
use
reflects
ordinary
inflectional
patterns
of
Polish
nouns
related
to
activity
terms.