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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), starać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 14 times in scientific texts, 11 times in news, 13 times in essays, 18 times in fiction, and 17 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 73 times, making it the 890th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
References
^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “starać się”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “starać się”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “starać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “starać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “starać”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 557
Further reading
starać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
“STARAĆ%20SIĘ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 15.12.2011
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.