skoro

See also: skòro, skóro, and skôrô

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈskoro]
  • (file)

Adverb

skoro

  1. almost, nearly
    Synonyms: téměř, takřka, bezmála
    jsem též na moři skoro zemřel.I almost died at sea as well.

Further reading

  • skoro in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • skoro in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • skoro in Internetová jazyková příručka

Lower Sorbian

Adverb

skoro (comparative skerjej, superlative nejskerjej)

  1. Superseded spelling of skóro.

Old Polish

Etymology

From skory + -o. First attested in the 15th century. Compare Old Czech skoro and Old Slovak skoro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /skɔrɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /skɔrɔ/

Adverb

skoro

  1. quickly, fast
    • 1916 [second half of the 15th century], Stanisław Słoński, editor, Psałterz puławski, Greater Poland, pages 36, 2:
      Bo yako szyano skoro *zwyędnye (velociter arescent)
      [Bo jako siano skoro zwiędną (velociter arescent)]

Descendants

  • Polish: skoro
  • Silesian: skoro

References

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish skoro. By surface analysis, skory + -o. Compare Kashubian skòro and Slovincian skôrô.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskɔ.rɔ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈskɔ.rɔ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrɔ
  • Syllabification: sko‧ro

Conjunction

skoro

  1. since (because)
  2. (archaic or literary) as soon as
  3. (obsolete) when

Derived terms

adverbs
  • skoro świt

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), skoro is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 9 times in essays, 20 times in fiction, and 23 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 58 times, making it the 1118th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Adverb

skoro (comparative skorzej, superlative najskorzej)

  1. (obsolete) quickly, swiftly; early; easily
    Synonyms: prędko, szybko, rychło

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “skoro”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 533

Further reading

  • skoro in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • skoro in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “skoro”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • SKORO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 18.11.2008
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “skoro”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “skoro”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “skoro”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 163

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skǒro/
  • Hyphenation: sko‧ro

Adverb

skòro (Cyrillic spelling ско̀ро)

  1. soon (= ȕskoro)
    Skoro će veče(r).Soon it will be evening.
  2. almost, nearly
    skoro nikadhardly ever
    Skoro sam se poskliznuo.I almost slipped.

Synonyms

Further reading

  • skoro” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • skoro” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish skoro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskɔrɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrɔ
  • Syllabification: sko‧ro

Conjunction

skoro

  1. until; when

Adverb

skoro (not comparable)

  1. shortly, soon

Further reading

  • Bogdan Kallus (2020) “skoro”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki, IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN, page 379
  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “skoro”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 132

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈskɔrɔ]

Adverb

skoro

  1. soon, shortly
  2. almost, nearly
    Synonyms: takmer, temer

Further reading

  • skoro”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch school.

Noun

skoro

  1. school

Descendants

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