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Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “okazać”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “okazać”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
(transitive, administrative) to giveaccess(to enable an authorized person to view or check a document)
(transitive,law) to show(to present an object, person, or persons to someone in an attempt to establish that the asked person recognizes them for a court hearing or investigation)
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), okazać sie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 35 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 14 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 98 times, making it the 644th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “okazać sie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 328
Further reading
okazać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “okazać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “okazać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]