niezbędny

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Polish

Etymology

From nie- +‎ zbędny.[1] First attested in 1681.[2][3]

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɛndnɘ
  • Syllabification: nie‧zbęd‧ny

Adjective

niezbędny (comparative bardziej niezbędny or (less common) niezbędniejszy, superlative najbardziej niezbędny or (less common) najniezbędniejszy, derived adverb niezbędnie)

  1. essential, indispensable, necessary, required (that which one cannot do without) , , ,
    Synonym: konieczny
    Antonym: zbędny
  2. (obsolete) indisposable (unable to be rid of)
  3. (obsolete) inevitable
    Synonyms: nieuchronny, nieunikniony

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), niezbędny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 13 times in news, 30 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 68 times, making it the 948th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “zbędny”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Aleksandra Wieczorek (28.11.2023) “NIEZBĘDNY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  3. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “niezbędny”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “niezbędny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 291

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