rzeczywiście

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Polish

Etymology

From rzeczywisty +‎ -ie. First attested in 1579.[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ʐɛ.t͡ʂɘˈviɕ.t͡ɕɛ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): (16th c.) /r̝ɛ.t͡ʂɨˈviɕ.t͡ɕɛ/, (17th–18th c.) /ʐɛ.t͡ʂɨˈviɕ.t͡ɕɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iɕt͡ɕɛ
  • Syllabification: rze‧czy‧wiś‧cie

Particle

rzeczywiście

  1. actually, forsooth, indeed, really, sure enough, verily
    Synonyms: faktycznie, istotnie, w rzeczy samej, zaiste, zaprawdę

Descendants

  • Silesian: rzeczywiście

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rzeczywiście is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 17 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 43 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 92 times, making it the 689th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “rzeczywiście”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “rzeczywiście”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 515

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish rzeczywiście.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʐɛ.t͡ʂɪˈviɕ.t͡ɕɛ/
  • Rhymes: -iɕt͡ɕɛ
  • Syllabification: rze‧czy‧wiś‧cie

Particle

rzeczywiście

  1. actually, forsooth, indeed, really, sure enough, verily

Further reading