zwany

Polish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈzva.nɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈzva.nɨ/
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  • Rhymes: -anɨ
  • Syllabification: zwa‧ny

Participle

zwany

  1. passive adjectival participle of zwać

Declension
Declension of zwany
case singular plural
masculine personal/animate masculine inanimate neuter feminine virile nonvirile
nominative, vocative zwany zwane zwana zwani zwane
genitive zwanego zwanej zwanych
dative zwanemu zwanym
accusative zwanego zwany zwane zwaną zwanych zwane
instrumental zwanym zwanymi
locative zwanej zwanych

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zwany is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 125 times in scientific texts, 38 times in news, 40 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 218 times, making it the 257th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References
  1. Ida Kurcz (1990), “zwany”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 788

Further reading
  • “zwany”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
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