dwadzieścia

Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dъva desęti. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /dvad͡ʑɛɕt͡ɕa/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /dvad͡ʑɛɕt͡ɕa/

Numeral

dwadzieścia

  1. twenty

Descendants

  • Polish: dwadzieścia
  • Silesian: dwadziścia

References

Polish

Polish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: dwadzieścia
    Ordinal: dwudziesty
    Adverbial: dwudziestokrotnie
    Multiplier: dwudziestokrotny
    Collective: dwadzieścioro
    Numeral noun: dwudziestka
    Relational adjective: dwudziestkowy
    Prefix: dwudziesto-

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish dwadzieścia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dvaˈd͡ʑɛɕ.t͡ɕa/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /dvaˈd͡ʑɛɕ.t͡ɕa/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɕt͡ɕa
  • Syllabification: dwa‧dzieś‧cia

Numeral

dwadzieścia

  1. twenty

Declension

Coordinate terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dwadzieścia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 78 times in scientific texts, 181 times in news, 84 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 32 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 400 times, making it the 119th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990), dwadzieścia”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 95

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