znacznie

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Polish

Etymology

From znaczny +‎ -ie. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -at͡ʂɲɛ
  • Syllabification: znacz‧nie

Adverb

znacznie (comparative znaczniej, superlative najznaczniej)

  1. significantly, considerably
    Synonym: znacząco
  2. (obsolete) clearly (without ambiguity or obscurity)
    Synonyms: widocznie, wyraźnie

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), znacznie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 51 times in scientific texts, 20 times in news, 38 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 123 times, making it the 488th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “znacznie”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “znacznie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 780

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