wszystko

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Polish

Etymology

From wszystek +‎ -o. Compare Masurian wsÿstko and Silesian wszyjsko. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʂɨst.kɔ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɨstkɔ
  • Syllabification: wszyst‧ko

Pronoun

wszystko

  1. everything
    Wszystko w okolicy jest pokryte śniegiem, nietypowo dla tego miesiąca.Everything in the neighbourhood is covered with snow, atypical for that month.

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wszystko is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 30 times in scientific texts, 13 times in news, 45 times in essays, 160 times in fiction, and 277 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 525 times, making it the 85th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wszystko”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wszystko”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 686

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