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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), bardzo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 285 times in scientific texts, 122 times in news, 254 times in essays, 188 times in fiction, and 290 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1139 times, making it the 35th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “bardzo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 19
Further reading
bardzo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “barzo, bardzo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
“BARDZO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2018 May 24
“BARDZO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2011 August 25