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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), obok (adverb) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 27 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 22 times in essays, 34 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 104 times, making it the 597th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “obok”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “obok”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “obok”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ “OBOK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 14.04.2011
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “obok (adverb)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 303
Further reading
obok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN