ostatnio

Polish

Etymology

From ostatni +‎ -o.[1] First attested in 1801.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔˈstat.ɲɔ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -atɲɔ
  • Syllabification: o‧stat‧nio

Adverb

ostatnio (not comparable)

  1. lately, recently, the other day
    Synonyms: niedawno, ostatnimi czasy
    Ostatnio dużo kaszlę, może powinienem pójść do lekarza na kontrolę. ― I've been coughing a lot lately, maybe I should go to the doctor for a checkup.
  2. last, last time, previously
    Synonyms: poprzednio, ostatnim razem
    Nie wiem, kiedy cię ostatnio widziałem. ― I don't know when I last saw you.

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ostatnio is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 57 times in news, 24 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 570th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[3]

References
  1. Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ostatnio”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. Gazeta Warszawska (in Polish), number 41, 1801 September 3, page 1249
  3. Ida Kurcz (1990) “ostatnio”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 344

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