bardzo

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Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish barzo. By surface analysis, barzy +‎ -o. Displaced Old Polish wielmi.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ard͡zɔ
  • Syllabification: bar‧dzo

Adverb

bardzo (comparative bardziej, superlative najbardziej)

  1. very (to a great extent or degree)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bardzo
    Bardzo dobrze mówisz po polsku!You speak Polish very well!
  2. (Southern Greater Poland) quickly; immediately

Derived terms

nouns
particles

Descendants

  • Kashubian: (through Middle Polish) barzo
  • Slovincian: (through Middle Polish) barzô
  • Ukrainian: ба́рдзо (bárdzo)

Trivia

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.[1]

References

  1. ^ 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
  • bardzo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • 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
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “bardzo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bardzo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bardzo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 98
  • bardzo in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “bardzo”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 29

Silesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish barzo. Displaced Old Polish wielmi.

Pronunciation

Adverb

bardzo (comparative bardzij bardzo, superlative nojbardzij bardzo)

  1. very (to a great extent or degree)
    Synonyms: bez miary, fest, moc

Further reading