Polish

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Etymology

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From Francuz +‎ -ski. Compare Kashubian francësczi and Silesian francuski. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -uski
  • Syllabification: fran‧cus‧ki
  • Homophone: Francuzki

Adjective

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francuski (not comparable, no derived adverb, abbreviation franc.)

  1. (relational) French (of or relating to France)

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Noun

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francuski m inan

  1. French (language)

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), francuski is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 11 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 740th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

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  1. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “francuski”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “francuski”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 121

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • (adjective) IPA(key): /frǎntsuːskiː/
  • (adverb) IPA(key): /frǎntsuːski/
  • Hyphenation: fran‧cu‧ski

Adjective

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fràncūskī (Cyrillic spelling фра̀нцӯскӣ)

  1. French
  2. (in masculine, substantive) the French language

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Adverb

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fràncūski (Cyrillic spelling фра̀нцӯски)

  1. in a French manner, as a Frenchman

Silesian

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Etymology

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From Francuz +‎ -ski.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /franˈt͡sus.ki/
  • Rhymes: -uski
  • Syllabification: fran‧cus‧ki

Adjective

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francuski (not comparable)

  1. (relational) French

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