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Old Polish
Adverb
lepiej
- comparative degree of dobrze
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěpьjь.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛpjɛj
- Syllabification: le‧piej
Adverb
lepiej
- comparative degree of dobrze
Particle
lepiej
- had better, better (should; ought to; need to; must)
- Lepiej się już zbieraj, bo spóźnisz się na pociąg. ― You'd better get going or you'll miss your train.
- Już lepiej się pouczmy do tej klasówki, bo znowu oblejemy. ― We'd better study for this test or we'll fail again.
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), lepiej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 26 times in essays, 43 times in fiction, and 90 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 192 times, making it the 291st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “lepiej”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 216
Further reading
- lepiej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- lepiej in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Silesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.pjɛj/
- Rhymes: -ɛpjɛj
- Syllabification: le‧piej
Adverb
lepiej
- comparative degree of dobrze