See also: wraź

Polish

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Etymology

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Univerbation of w +‎ raz.[1] First attested in the 16th century.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vras/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvrɒs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: wraz

Adverb

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wraz (not comparable)

  1. along (with someone or something else)
    Synonyms: razem, wspólnie, wespół
  2. just (not far)
    Synonym: zaraz
  3. (obsolete) immediately, at once
    Synonyms: zaraz, natychmiast
  4. (obsolete) simultaneously, at the same time
    Synonyms: jednocześnie, zarazem

Derived terms

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prepositions

Descendants

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  • Silesian: wrŏz

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 29 times in scientific texts, 33 times in news, 21 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 98 times, making it the 648th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “raz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wraz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  3. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 679

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