warto

See also: Warto

Old High German

Etymology

From the verb wartēn.

Noun

warto m

  1. guard
  2. custodian

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvar.tɔ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈvɒr.tɔ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -artɔ
  • Syllabification: war‧to
  • Homophone: Warto

Etymology 1

From wart +‎ -o. First attested in 1673.[1]

Verb

warto impf (defective)

  1. (intransitive) it is worth (there is a benefit or point in doing something)
    Warto to zrobić. ― It's worth doing/It's worth.
Conjugation
Conjugation of warto def
present tense warto
past tense było warto
future tense będzie warto
conditional byłoby warto
imperative niech będzie warto

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), warto is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 29 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 10 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 777th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

warto f

  1. vocative singular of warta

References
  1. Herman Hugo(n) (1673) Aleksander Teodor Lacki, transl., Pobożne pragnienia… (in Polish), page 112: “Powiedz mi tedy, proszę, warto, nie ku wzgardzie, jeśli był mój Kochanek z wami w kortygardzie?”
  2. Ida Kurcz (1990) “warto”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 653

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