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Polish
Etymology
From określić + -ony.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔk.rɛɕˈlɔ.nɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɔnɨ
- Syllabification: ok‧reś‧lo‧ny
Adjective
określony (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- specific, defined, given
- Antonym: nieokreślony
- (literary, especially in political propaganda) that, certain (known to the listener but such that the speaker does not want to say which)
Declension
Declension of określony (hard)
Participle
określony (passive adjectival)
- past passive adjectival participle of określić
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), określony is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 31 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 84 times, making it the 761st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “określony”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 330
Further reading
- określony in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- określony in Polish dictionaries at PWN