parę
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pare"
Polish
Etymology
From para + -ę, an adverbialization of the accusative.[1] Compare trochę or Hungarian egy kicsit. First attested in 1559.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.rɛ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɒ.rɛ̃/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -arɛ
- Syllabification: pa‧rę
Determiner
parę
Related terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), parę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 9 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 12 times in essays, 44 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 96 times, making it the 654th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]
References
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “parę”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “para”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Ida Kurcz (1990) “parę”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 356
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