Polish

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Etymology

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From dotychczas +‎ -owy. First attested in 1797.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɔ.tɨx.t͡ʂaˈsɔ.vɨ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvɨ
  • Syllabification: do‧tych‧cza‧so‧wy

Adjective

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dotychczasowy (not comparable, derived adverb dotychczasowo)

  1. existing, hitherto, to date (existing or taking place up to the time referred to)
  2. previous (one that was up to the time of writing)

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dotychczasowy is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 38 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 739th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), number 61, 1797 July 30, page 4
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “dotychczasowy”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 88

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