trwania

Trwanie is a Polish noun meaning the state of lasting or duration, the ongoing existence of something through time. It is formed from the verb trwać, to last or endure, with the common nominalizing suffix -anie. The term is widely used in everyday language as well as in philosophical and scientific discourse to refer to the persistence of a phenomenon over time.

In everyday use, trwanie highlights duration rather than start and end points. Common collocations include czas trwania (the length of time something lasts), okres trwania, and długość trwania. For example, Czas trwania filmu wynosi dwa godziny. Trwanie egzaminu zależy od zestawu zadań. These expressions focus on how long something lasts rather than on the moments within it.

In philosophy, trwanie is associated with the qualitative, flowing aspect of time. In Polish translations of Bergson’s durée, trwanie often stands for the experiential “duration” rather than measurable clock time, emphasizing how consciousness experiences time as an indivisible flow rather than a series of discrete instants.

In linguistics and grammar, trwanie is a nominal form used to discuss events and processes. It can be complemented by adjectives and prepositional phrases, as in długie trwanie or trwanie w czasie, to describe persistence across a period, or trwanie w świadomości for subjective persistence. The term thus functions across everyday speech and academic discourse to convey the idea of lasting presence over a span of time.