również

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Polish

Etymology

From równie +‎ . First attested in the first half of the 18th century.[1] Compare Czech rovněž.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈruv.ɲɛʂ/
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  • Rhymes: -uvɲɛʂ
  • Syllabification: rów‧nież

Particle

również

  1. also
    Synonyms: też, także

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), również is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 184 times in scientific texts, 176 times in news, 160 times in essays, 36 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 572 times, making it the 81st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “również”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “również”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 508

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