mniej

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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɲɛj/
  • Rhymes: -ɛj
  • Syllabification: mniej

Adverb

mniej

  1. comparative degree of mało; less

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), mniej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 42 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 33 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 24 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 125 times, making it the 477th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Further reading

  • mniej in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “mniej”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 251