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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), materiał is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 78 times in scientific texts, 27 times in news, 72 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 294th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]
References
^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “materiał”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “materiał”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
^ Ewa Rodek (26.11.2019) “MATERIAŁ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “materiał”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 237
Further reading
materiał in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN