Polish

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Etymology

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From kolej +‎ -ny.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kɔˈlɛj.nɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /kɔˈlɛj.nɨ/, /kɔˈlej.nɨ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛjnɨ
  • Syllabification: ko‧lej‧ny

Adjective

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kolejny (not comparable, derived adverb kolejno)

  1. successive, consecutive, succeeding, next, subsequent (coming next in a sequence)
  2. (relational, obsolete) rail, railway (transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods)
    Synonym: kolejowy
  3. (obsolete) circling (going around something in a circle)
  4. (obsolete) distinct, separate, different
    Synonym: odmienny

Declension

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kolejny is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 14 times in scientific texts, 38 times in news, 17 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 74 times, making it the 867th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “kolej”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “kolejny”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kolejny”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 184

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