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Polish
Etymology
Deverbal from zbyć. First attested in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
zbyt m inan
- (business) sale (act of selling)
- (business) demand, market (desire for a particular product)
Declension
Particle
zbyt
- too (more than enough)
- Synonym: za
- To zbyt niebezpieczne! ― It's too dangerous!
- too (in negated sentences, to a high degree, very)
- Synonym: za
- To nie jest zbyt mądre. ― That's not too wise.
Usage notes
The word zbyt is used with adjectives and adverbs e.g. zbyt duży, zbyt wiele, whereas zbytnio is used only with verbs.
Descendants
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zbyt (particle) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 27 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 21 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 130 times, making it the 466th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
- ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “zbyt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- ^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “zbyt”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “1. zbyt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “2. zbyt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zbyt (particle)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 762
Further reading
- zbyt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zbyt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “ZBYT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.04.2011
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zbyt”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “zbyt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1927), “zbyt”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 8, Warsaw, page 398