określony

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Polish

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Etymology

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From określić +‎ -ony.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔ.krɛˈɕlɔ.nɘ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔnɘ
  • Syllabification: o‧kre‧ślo‧ny

Adjective

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określony (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. specific, defined, given
    Antonym: nieokreślony
  2. (literary, especially in political propaganda) that, certain (known to the listener but such that the speaker does not want to say which)

Declension

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Participle

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określony (passive adjectival)

  1. past passive adjectival participle of określić

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), określony is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 31 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 84 times, making it the 761st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “określony”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 330

Further reading

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  • określony in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • określony in Polish dictionaries at PWN