typ

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See also: TYP, Typ, and тур

Czech

Etymology

Derived from German Typ.

Pronunciation

Noun

typ m inan (related adjective typový)

  1. (programming) type

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • typ in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • typ in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • typ in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

typ

  1. inflection of typen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French type. First attested in 1688.

Pronunciation

Noun

typ m inan

  1. (countable) type (grouping based on shared characteristics)
    Synonyms: (archaic) autorament, model, rodzaj
  2. (countable) type (individual considered typical of its class)
  3. (uncountable) guess (prediction about the outcome of something)
    Synonyms: przypuszczenie, domysł
  4. (countable, film, literature) archetype (character presented as devoid of individual features and having only schematic features)
  5. (countable, taxonomy) phylum (rank in the classification of organisms)
  6. (countable, psychology) type (kind of mentality or psychology attributed to a person)
  7. (countable, obsolete, typography) type (letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block)

Declension

Derived terms

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Noun

typ m pers (female equivalent typiara, diminutive typek)

  1. (countable, colloquial, derogatory) guy, sort, character (man that evokes a negative emotion from the speaker)
    Przy sklepie kręcił się jakiś dziwny typ w kapeluszu.Some strange guy in a hat was hanging around the store.

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), typ is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 60 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 40 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 139 times, making it the 431st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Descendants

  • Kashubian: tip
  • Silesian: typ

References

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “typ”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “typ”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  3. ^ Aleksandra Wieczorek (20.04.2021) “TYP”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  4. ^ typ”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022
  5. ^ typ”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022
  6. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “typ”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 618

Further reading

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

typ c

  1. a type
  2. a (disagreeable or suspicious) person/character, (often) a jerk
    Vilken typ!
    What a jerk!
    Han är en riktig typ
    He's a real jerk
    en underlig typ
    a strange guy
    några skumma typer
    some shady guys
    Rolig typ det där
    I think he's funny ("Funny guy / character that")
  3. (printing) a type

Usage notes

Usually but not always negative in (sense 2). Can be thought of as character with negative characteristics implied unless qualified (or as positive usage using a negative word somewhat ironically).

Declension

Declension of typ 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative typ typen typer typerna
Genitive typs typens typers typernas

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Adverb

typ

  1. (colloquial) kinda, ish, around
    Det var typ
    It was kinda like that
    Jag vill äta typ tjugo ägg
    I want to eat twenty eggs, ish
    Typ som den där snubben vi såg igår
    Kinda like that guy we saw yesterday
    Ja, typ!
    Yeah, kinda!
    Det var typ jättevarmt igår
    It was like super hot yesterday (it was kinda like that)
    – Hur varmt är det ute? – Typ 20 grader.
    – How warm is it outside? – Around 20 degrees.

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