dużo

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Kashubian

Etymology

From dużi +‎ -o. Compare Polish dużo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdu.ʒɔ/
  • Rhymes: -uʒɔ
  • Syllabification: du‧żo

Numeral

dużo (comparable wicy, superlative nôwicy)

  1. a lot of, lots

Further reading

  • dużo”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Polish

Etymology

From duży +‎ -o.[1] First attested in 1588.[2] Compare Kashubian dużo, and Silesian dużo.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -uʐɔ
  • Syllabification: du‧żo

Adverb

dużo (comparative więcej, superlative najwięcej, Middle Polish comparative dużej)

  1. much, a lot
    Synonyms: wiele, mnóstwo, sporo, multum, moc
    Antonyms: mało, niedużo
  2. used to emphasize a comparative; much, a lot
    Synonym: o wiele
    Oj, tak jest dużo lepiej.Oh, that's a lot better.
  3. (obsolete) very
    Synonym: bardzo
  4. (Middle Polish) strongly (with force)
    Synonyms: mocno, silnie, potężnie

Numeral

dużo (comparable więcej)

  1. many, a lot of

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dużo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 22 times in essays, 30 times in fiction, and 36 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 114 times, making it the 532nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “dużo”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “duże, dużo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “dużo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 95

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

From duży +‎ -o. Compare Polish dużo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdu.ʐɔ/
  • Rhymes: -uʐɔ
  • Syllabification: du‧żo

Numeral

dużo (comparable wiyncyj, superlative nojwiyncyj)

  1. a lot of, lots

Further reading