bardzo
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- barzo (Middle Polish, Central Greater Poland, Southern Greater Poland, Morownica, Masuria, Podlachia, Tykocin, Podhale, Zakopane, Babia Góra, Skawica, Southern Borderlands, Drohobych)
- bardzoj (Podegrodzie)
Etymology
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Inherited from Old Polish barzo. By surface analysis, barzy + -o. Displaced Old Polish wielmi.
Compare typologically Russian ши́бко (šíbko) (akin to ши́бкий (šíbkij)).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈbar.d͡zɔ/
- (Greater Poland):
- (Southern Greater Poland) IPA(key): [ˈbar.d͡zɔ]
- (Lesser Poland):
Adverb
[edit]bardzo (comparative bardziej, superlative najbardziej)
- very (to a great extent or degree)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bardzo
- Bardzo dobrze mówisz po polsku! ― You speak Polish very well!
- (Southern Greater Poland, Kielce) quickly; immediately
Derived terms
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Descendants
[edit]- → Kashubian: (through Middle Polish) barzo
- → Slovincian: (through Middle Polish) barzô
- → Ukrainian: ба́рдзо (bárdzo)
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), bardzo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 285 times in scientific texts, 122 times in news, 254 times in essays, 188 times in fiction, and 290 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1139 times, making it the 35th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- bardzo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bardzo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “barzo, bardzo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- “BARDZO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 24 May 2018
- “BARDZO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 25 August 2011
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “bardzo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “bardzo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bardzo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 98
- bardzo in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- Jan Karłowicz (1900), “bardzo”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 50
Silesian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish barzo. Displaced Old Polish wielmi.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]bardzo (comparative bardzij bardzo, superlative nojbardzij bardzo)
Further reading
[edit]- bardzo in silling.org
Categories:
- Polish terms derived from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Polish terms inherited from Old Polish
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mreǵʰ-
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Polish terms suffixed with -o
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Polish
- Southern Greater Poland Polish
- Kielce Polish
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ard͡zɔ
- Rhymes:Polish/ard͡zɔ/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish adverbs
- Polish terms with usage examples
- Polish degree adverbs
- Polish manner adverbs
- Silesian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Silesian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Silesian terms inherited from Old Polish
- Silesian terms derived from Old Polish
- Silesian terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Silesian/ard͡zɔ
- Rhymes:Silesian/ard͡zɔ/2 syllables
- Silesian lemmas
- Silesian adverbs