Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish barzo. By surface analysis, barzy +‎ -o. Displaced Old Polish wielmi.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ard͡zɔ
  • Syllabification: bar‧dzo

Adverb

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bardzo (comparative bardziej, superlative najbardziej)

  1. very (to a great extent or degree)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bardzo
    Bardzo dobrze mówisz po polsku!You speak Polish very well!
  2. (Southern Greater Poland) quickly; immediately

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Kashubian: (through Middle Polish) barzo
  • Slovincian: (through Middle Polish) barzô
  • Ukrainian: ба́рдзо (bárdzo)

Trivia

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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]

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “bardzo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 19

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Silesian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish barzo. Displaced Old Polish wielmi.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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bardzo (comparative bardzij bardzo, superlative nojbardzij bardzo)

  1. very (to a great extent or degree)
    Synonyms: bez miary, fest, moc

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