w ogóle
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Polish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally, “in general”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Particle[edit]
- (idiomatic) by the way
- Synonym: swoją drogą
- (idiomatic) in general, generally
- Synonyms: ogólnie, w ogólności
- (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) at all, even
- W ogóle nie wiem, o czym mówisz. ― I don't know at all what you are talking about.
- Czy on w ogóle to zrobił? ― Did he even do this?
Trivia[edit]
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), w ogóle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 36 times in essays, 39 times in fiction, and 58 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 156 times, making it the 370th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]