nieraz

See also: nieráz

Polish

Etymology

Univerbation of nie +‎ raz, literally “not once”.[1][2][3] First attested in 1534.[4] Compare Kashubian nierôz, Masurian nieráz, and Silesian niyrŏz.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.ras/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈɲɛ.rɒs/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛras
  • Syllabification: nie‧raz

Adverb

nieraz (not comparable)

  1. more than once; often, many a time, time and time again
    Synonyms: często, wielokrotnie
  2. every now and then, from time to time, occasionally, sometimes
    Synonyms: co jakiś czas, czasami, czasem, niekiedy

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), nieraz is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 24 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 13 times in essays, 14 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 70 times, making it the 921st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References
  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “nieraz”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “nieraz”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “nieraz”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  4. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nieraz”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “nieraz”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 287

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