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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), spotkać się is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 2 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 38 times, making it the 997th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “spotkać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “spotkać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “spotkać się”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 548
Further reading
spotkać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
spotkać się in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
1) Personal neuter forms might be considered nonstandard, protological, or nonce, appearing mostly in literature to refer to grammatically neuter nouns, however might also be used for people who prefer neuter forms. 2) The pluperfect is either archaic or obsolete and now used for conditional in the past.