zbyt

See also: zbýt

Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from zbyć.[1][2] First attested in the 16th century.[3][4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zbɨt/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈzbɨt/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨt
  • Syllabification: zbyt

Noun

zbyt m inan

  1. (business) sale (act of selling)
  2. (business) demand, market (desire for a particular product)

Declension

Particle

zbyt

  1. too (more than enough)
    Synonym: za
    To zbyt niebezpieczne!It's too dangerous!
  2. too (in negated sentences, to a high degree, very)
    Synonym: za
    To nie jest zbyt mądre.That's not too wise.

Usage notes

The word zbyt is used with adjectives and adverbs e.g. zbyt duży, zbyt wiele, whereas zbytnio is used only with verbs.

Descendants

  • Silesian: zbyt

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zbyt (particle) is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 32 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 27 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 21 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 130 times, making it the 466th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

  1. Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “zbyt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. Mańczak, Witold (2017) “zbyt”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  3. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “1. zbyt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  4. Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “2. zbyt”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “zbyt (particle)”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 762

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.