niemal

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Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of Old Polish niemalem.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.mal/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.mɒl/, /ˈɲe.mɒl/
  • (file)
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  • Rhymes: -ɛmal
  • Syllabification: nie‧mal

Particle[edit]

niemal

  1. almost, nearly
    Synonyms: bez mała, jakby, niejako, nieledwie, niemalże, nieomal, nieomalże, prawie

Derived terms[edit]

particles

Trivia[edit]

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), niemal is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 28 times in scientific texts, 12 times in news, 18 times in essays, 19 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 78 times, making it the 822nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “niemal”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 283

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