osiemset

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Polish

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    Cardinal: osiemset
    Ordinal: osiemsetny
    Adverbial: osiemsetkrotnie
    Multiplier: osiemsetkrotny
    Numeral noun: osiemsetka

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ośmset. By surface analysis, univerbation of osiem +‎ set.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔɕɛmsɛt
  • Syllabification: o‧siem‧set

Numeral

osiemset

  1. eight hundred

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), osiemset is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 55 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 4 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 85 times, making it the 751st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “osiemset”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 342

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