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określony

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Polish

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Etymology

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    From określić + -ony.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ɔ.krɛˈɕlɔ.nɘ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɔnɘ
    • Syllabification: o‧kre‧ślo‧ny

    Adjective

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    określony (not comparable, no derived adverb)

    1. specific, defined, given
      Antonym: nieokreślony
    2. (literary, especially in political propaganda) that, certain (known to the listener but such that the speaker does not want to say which)

    Declension

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    Participle

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    określony (passive adjectival)

    1. past passive adjectival participle of określić

    Trivia

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    According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), określony is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 31 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 84 times, making it the 761st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

    References

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    1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “określony”, 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 330

    Further reading

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    • określony”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • określony”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)