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czwarty

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Old Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡ʃʲfaːrtiː/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡ʃʲfɒrti/

Numeral

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czwarty

  1. alternative form of cztwarty

Polish

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Polish numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: cztery
    Ordinal: czwarty
    Adverbial: czterokrotnie, czterokroć
    Multiplier: poczwórny, czterokrotny
    Distributive: poczwórnie
    Adverbial qualitative: czworako
    Multiplier qualitative: czworaki
    Collective: czworo
    Additional collective: kwartet
    Fractional: ćwierć, ćwiartka
    Numeral noun: czwórka
    Relational adjective: czwórkowy
    Related verb: czworzyć

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Polish cztwarty.

    Pronunciation

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    • Rhymes: -artɘ
    • Syllabification: czwar‧ty

    Adjective

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    czwarty (not comparable, no derived adverb, abbreviation 4.)

    1. fourth

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    adverbs

    Noun

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    czwarty m inan

    1. denotes fourth day of the month; the fourth

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    Trivia

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    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czwarty is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 93 times in news, 48 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 10 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 208 times, making it the 266th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    References

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    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “czwarty”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 64

    Further reading

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