czterdzieści

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьtyre desęti. By surface analysis, univerbation of cztery +‎ dzieści. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡ʃʲtɛrd͡ʑɛɕt͡ɕi/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡ʃʲtɛrd͡ʑɛɕt͡ɕi/

Numeral

czterdzieści

  1. forty

Descendants

  • Polish: czterdzieści
  • Silesian: sztyrdzieści

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
400
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4
    Cardinal: czterdzieści
    Ordinal: czterdziesty
    Adverbial: czterdziestokrotnie
    Multiplier: czterdziestokrotny
    Collective: czterdzieścioro
    Numeral noun: czterdziestka
    Relational adjective: czterdziestkowy

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish czterdzieści. By surface analysis, univerbation of cztery +‎ dzieści.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʂtɛrˈd͡ʑɛɕ.t͡ɕi/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɕt͡ɕi
  • Syllabification: czter‧dzieś‧ci

Numeral

czterdzieści

  1. forty

Declension

Coordinate terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), czterdzieści is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 39 times in scientific texts, 101 times in news, 30 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 185 times, making it the 305th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “czterdzieści”, 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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