na pewno
See also: napewno
Polish
Etymology
Literally, “for sure”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /naˈpɛv.nɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛvnɔ
Particle
- (idiomatic) absolutely, certainly, definitely, for sure
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), na pewno is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 29 times in essays, 51 times in fiction, and 55 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 147 times, making it the 393rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
Further reading
- na pewno in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- na pewno in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Ida Kurcz (1990) “na pewno”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 261
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