Polish

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Etymology

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From absolutny +‎ -ie. First attested in 1723–1747.[1] Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French absolument.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /apsɔˈlutɲɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -utɲɛ
  • Syllabification: ab‧so‧lut‧nie

Adverb

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absolutnie (not generally comparable, comparative absolutniej, superlative najabsolutniej)

  1. absolutely (entirely)
  2. absolutely (unquestionably)
  3. absolutely (in a way being objective)
  4. absolutely (in a way based on absolutism)

Interjection

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absolutnie

  1. absolutely!
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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), absolutnie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 5 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 12 times, making it the 4217th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Wiesław Morawski (03.01.2012) “ABSOLUTNIE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “absolutnie”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “absolutnie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 1

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