szybko

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɘp.kɔ/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈʂɨp.kɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɘpkɔ
• Syllabification: szyb‧ko

Etymology 1

From szybki +‎ -o. First attested in 1662.

Adverb

szybko (comparative szybciej, superlative najszybciej)

1. quickly, rapidly, fast, swiftly (at a speed covering a given distance in less time than usual)

   Synonym: w skok

   Antonyms: powoli, wolno

2. quickly, rapidly, fast, swiftly (in a way such that a given action takes less time than usual)

   Antonyms: powoli, wolno

3. quickly, rapidly, fast, swiftly (in a way that elements of something follow one another more often than usual)

   Antonyms: powoli, wolno

4. soon; quickly (in a way that something happens within a short time elapsed from a known moment)

Derived terms

proverbs

• kto szybko daje, dwa razy daje

 

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), szybko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 24 times in essays, 43 times in fiction, and 21 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 137 times, making it the 439th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

szybko f

1. vocative singular of szybka

Further reading

• szybko in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• szybko in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “szybko”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “szybko”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “szybko”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 696