Inherited from Latin damnum. Compare Spanish daño, also the related archaic damnatge, more closely cognate to Occitan damatge, French dommage.
dany m (plural danys)
dany
dany
| Masculine singular | Feminine singular | Neuter singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dany | dana | dane | danej | dane |
| Genitive | danego | daneje | danego | daneju | danych |
| Dative | danemu | danej | danemu | danyma | danym |
| Accusative | dany danego (animate) |
danu | dane | danej daneju (animate) |
dane danych (optional animate form) |
| Instrumental | danym | daneju | danym | danyma | danymi |
| Locative | danem | danej | danem | danyma | danych |
dany (not comparable, no derived adverb)
dany (passive adjectival)
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine animate | masculine inanimate | feminine | neuter | virile (= masculine personal) | non-virile | |
| nominative | dany | dana | dane | dani | dane | |
| genitive | danego | danej | danego | danych | ||
| dative | danemu | danej | danemu | danym | ||
| accusative | danego | dany | daną | dane | danych | dane |
| instrumental | danym | daną | danym | danymi | ||
| locative | danym | danej | danym | danych | ||
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dany is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 50 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 25 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 89 times, making it the 710th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]