osiemset

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Polish

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Polish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: osiemset
    Ordinal: osiemsetny
    Adverbial: osiemsetkrotnie
    Multiplier: osiemsetkrotny
    Numeral noun: osiemsetka

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish ośmset. By surface analysis, univerbation of osiem +‎ set.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔɕɛmsɛt
  • Syllabification: o‧siem‧set

Numeral

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osiemset

  1. eight hundred

Declension

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), osiemset is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 55 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 4 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 85 times, making it the 751st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “osiemset”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 342

Further reading

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