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Old Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trьje. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
Numeral
trzy
- three
Descendants
References
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish trzy.
Pronunciation
Numeral
trzy
- three
Noun
trzy n
- (colloquial, education) three, C (passing grade in school)
Declension
Coordinate terms
Polish cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
Derived terms
Related terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), trzy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 118 times in scientific texts, 240 times in news, 82 times in essays, 58 times in fiction, and 70 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 568 times, making it the 82nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “trzy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 612
Further reading
- trzy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- trzy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “TRZY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2016 June 28
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “trzy”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “trzy”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “trzy”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 154