pierwszy

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Polish

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    Cardinal: jeden
    Ordinal: pierwszy
    Adverbial: jednokrotnie, jednokroć, raz
    Multiplier: pojedynczy, jednokrotny
    Distributive: pojedynczo
    Adverbial qualitative: jednorako
    Multiplier qualitative: jednoraki
    Fractional: całość
    Numeral noun: jedynka
    Relational adjective: jedynkowy

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish pierwy in the superlative form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpjɛrf.ʂɘ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛrfʂɘ
  • Syllabification: pierw‧szy

Adjective

pierwszy (not comparable, no derived adverb, abbreviation 1.)

  1. first (in order)
  2. first (in time)
  3. first (most important)
  4. first (best in some regard)
  5. (mathematics) prime
    Antonyms: niepierwszy, ostatni

Declension

Noun

pierwszy m inan

  1. denotes first day of the month; the first

Declension

Derived terms

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Descendants

  • Belarusian: пе́ршы (pjéršy)
  • Ukrainian: пе́рший (péršyj)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pierwszy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 225 times in scientific texts, 345 times in news, 151 times in essays, 119 times in fiction, and 96 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 936 times, making it the 43rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “pierwszy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 366

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