ogromny

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Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ogrom +‎ -ny.[1] First attested in 1558.[2] Compare Czech ohromný.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔmnɘ
  • Syllabification: o‧grom‧ny

Adjective

ogromny (comparative ogromniejszy, superlative najogromniejszy, derived adverb ogromnie)

  1. immense, huge (very large, intense, or broad)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:duży
  2. (obsolete) rich; powerful
  3. (Middle Polish) wonderful; grand
  4. (Middle Polish) very loud; thunderous
  5. (Middle Polish) terrifying (causing fear)
  6. (Middle Polish) off-putting; ugly
  7. (Middle Polish) shameful, unworthy

Declension

Declension of ogromny (hard)
singular plural
masculine animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter virile (= masculine personal) non-virile
nominative ogromny ogromna ogromne ogromni ogromne
genitive ogromnego ogromnej ogromnego ogromnych
dative ogromnemu ogromnej ogromnemu ogromnym
accusative ogromnego ogromny ogromną ogromne ogromnych ogromne
instrumental ogromnym ogromną ogromnym ogromnymi
locative ogromnym ogromnej ogromnym ogromnych

Descendants

  • → Kashubian: ògromny
  • → Silesian: ôgrōmny

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ogromny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 23 times in scientific texts, 19 times in news, 33 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 99 times, making it the 637th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ogromny”, 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) “ogromny”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ogromny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 327

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