cztery

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *četyre. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡ʃʲtɛ(ː)rɨ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡ʃʲtɛrɨ/, /t͡ʃʲterɨ/

Numeral

cztery

  1. four

Descendants

  • Polish: cztery
  • Silesian: sztyry

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “cztery”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “cztery”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “cztery”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “cztery”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: cztery
    Ordinal: czwarty
    Adverbial: czterokrotnie, czterokroć
    Multiplier: poczwórny, czterokrotny
    Distributive: poczwórnie
    Adverbial qualitative: czworako
    Multiplier qualitative: czworaki
    Collective: czworo
    Additional collective: kwartet
    Fractional: ćwierć, ćwiartka
    Numeral noun: czwórka
    Relational adjective: czwórkowy
    Related verb: czworzyć

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish cztery. Doublet of kwadra and kwarta.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɛrɘ
  • Syllabification: czte‧ry

Numeral

cztery

  1. four

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), cztery is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 65 times in scientific texts, 185 times in news, 67 times in essays, 33 times in fiction, and 23 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 373 times, making it the 133rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Noun

cztery n (indeclinable)

  1. (education) four (grade in school)

Coordinate terms

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “cztery”, 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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