znów

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Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of znowu. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

znów (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of znowu.

Particle[edit]

znów

  1. Synonym of znowu.

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), znów is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 9 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 5 times in essays, 55 times in fiction, and 38 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 110 times, making it the 564th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “znów”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “znów”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 783

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