lepiej
Old Polish
editAdverb
editlepiej
Polish
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *lěpěje.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.pjɛj/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.pjej/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛpjɛj
- Syllabification: le‧piej
Adverb
editlepiej
Particle
editlepiej
- had better, better (should; ought to; need to; must)
- Lepiej się już zbieraj, bo spóźnisz się na pociąg. ― You'd better get going or you'll miss your train.
- Już lepiej się pouczmy do tej klasówki, bo znowu oblejemy. ― We'd better study for this class or we'll fail again.
Trivia
editAccording to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), lepiej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 26 times in essays, 43 times in fiction, and 90 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 192 times, making it the 291st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
editFurther reading
editSilesian
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editlepiej
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛpjɛj
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- Rhymes:Silesian/ɛpjɛj
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