czterdziesty

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Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
400,
 ←  30  ←  39 40 41  →  50  → 
4
    Cardinal: czterdzieści
    Ordinal: czterdziesty
    Adverbial: czterdziestokrotnie
    Multiplier: czterdziestokrotny
    Collective: czterdzieścioro
    Numeral noun: czterdziestka
    Relational adjective: czterdziestkowy

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of Old Polish czterdziesiąty.[1] By surface analysis, czterdzieści +‎ -y.[2]

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʂtɛrˈd͡ʑɛs.tɘ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛstɘ
  • Syllabification: czter‧dzies‧ty

Adjective

czterdziesty (not comparable, no derived adverb, abbreviation 40.)

  1. fortieth

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czterdziesty is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 30 times in scientific texts, 28 times in news, 14 times in essays, 13 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 91 times, making it the 695th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “czterdziesty”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “czterdzieści”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “czterdziesty”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 63

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