zwany

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Polish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -anɘ
  • Syllabification: zwa‧ny

Participle

zwany (passive adjectival)

  1. passive adjectival participle of zwać

Declension

Declension of zwany (hard)
singular plural
masculine animate masculine inanimate feminine neuter virile (= masculine personal) non-virile
nominative zwany zwana zwane zwani zwane
genitive zwanego zwanej zwanego zwanych
dative zwanemu zwanej zwanemu zwanym
accusative zwanego zwany zwaną zwane zwanych zwane
instrumental zwanym zwaną zwanym zwanymi
locative zwanym zwanej zwanym zwanych

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zwany is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 125 times in scientific texts, 38 times in news, 40 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 218 times, making it the 257th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zwany”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 788

Further reading

  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “zwany”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
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