może
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ʐɛ/
- (Greater Poland):
- (Southern Greater Poland) IPA(key): [ˈmɔ.ʐɛ]
- (Masovia):
- (Borderlands):
- (Northern Borderlands) IPA(key): [ˈmɔ.ʐɛ]
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) Audio 3: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔʐɛ
- Syllabification: mo‧że
- Homophones: morze, morzę
Etymology 1
[edit]Ellipsis of być może.[1] First attested in 1588.[2]
Particle
[edit]może
- maybe, perhaps
- Synonym: być może
- Antonyms: bez cienia wątpliwości, bez wątpienia, bez dwóch zdań, jak amen w pacierzu, jak nic, na bank, na mur beton, na pewno, na sto procent, z pewnością
- (Suwałki, Augustów Governorate, Northern Borderlands, Lithuania) tag question; is it? perhaps?
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), może is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 37 times in essays, 147 times in fiction, and 260 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 469 times, making it the 96th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
Verb
[edit]może impf (defective)
- (intransitive, Southern Greater Poland, Sikorzyn, Bukownica) synonym of można
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]może
References
[edit]- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “może”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “może”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “może”, 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 256
Further reading
[edit]- “może”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “może”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “może”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “może”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “może”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1054
- Jan Karłowicz (1903), “może”, in Hieronim Łopaciński, Wacław Taczanowski, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 3: L do O, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 189
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