może

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See also: moze, Mozė, and može

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of być może (literally maybe). First attested in 1588.

Particle

może

  1. maybe, perhaps
    Synonym: być może
    Antonyms: bez cienia wątpliwości, bez wątpienia, bez dwóch zdań, jak amen w pacierzu, jak nic, na bank, na mur beton, na pewno, na sto procent, z pewnością

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), może is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 37 times in essays, 147 times in fiction, and 260 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 469 times, making it the 96th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

może

  1. third-person singular present indicative of móc

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “może”, 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) “może”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “może”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 256

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