znów

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Polish

Etymology

Clipping of znowu. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -uf
  • Syllabification: znów

Adverb

znów (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of znowu.

Particle

znów

  1. Synonym of znowu.

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), znów is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 9 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 5 times in essays, 55 times in fiction, and 38 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 110 times, making it the 564th 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) “znów”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “znów”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 783

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