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used in the construction raz... raz...sometimes, once(at some point)
Czemu raz działa, i raz nie? ― Why does it work sometimes, but not other times?
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), raz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 72 times in scientific texts, 66 times in news, 43 times in essays, 103 times in fiction, and 137 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 421 times, making it the 112th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
↑ 1.01.1Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “raz 2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “raz 3”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
↑ 3.03.1Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “raz 4”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “raz, raza”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “raz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 485
Further reading
raz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
“RAZ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2021 August 24
“raz”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024