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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zapytać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 1 time in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 3 times in essays, 53 times in fiction, and 25 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 778th 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) “zapytać”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zapytać się”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zapytać”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 748
Further reading
zapytać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
zapytać 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.