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dzisiaj

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Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Polish dzisia. For the final -j, compare wczoraj.

    Pronunciation

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    • Rhymes: -iɕaj
    • Syllabification: dzi‧siaj

    Adverb

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    dzisiaj (not comparable)

    1. today
      Synonym: dziś
      Antonyms: wczoraj, jutro
    2. nowadays
      Synonyms: dziś, współcześnie

    Derived terms

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    adjectives

    Trivia

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    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dzisiaj (adverb) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 26 times in essays, 11 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 16 times, making it the 547th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    Noun

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    dzisiaj n (indeclinable)

    1. today
      Synonym: dziś
    2. nowadays
      Synonym: dziś

    References

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    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “dzisiaj (adverb)”, 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 104

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