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Old Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *četyre. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡ʃʲtɛ(ː)rɨ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡ʃʲtɛrɨ/, /t͡ʃʲterɨ/

Numeral

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cztery

  1. four

Descendants

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  • Masurian: sztéri
  • Polish: cztery
  • Silesian: sztyry

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Polish

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Polish numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: cztery
    Ordinal: czwarty
    Adverbial: czterokrotnie, czterokroć
    Multiplier: poczwórny, czterokrotny
    Distributive: poczwórnie
    Adverbial qualitative: czworako
    Multiplier qualitative: czworaki
    Collective: czworo
    Additional collective: kwartet
    Fractional: ćwierć, ćwiartka
    Numeral noun: czwórka
    Relational adjective: czwórkowy
    Related verb: czworzyć
    Prefix: cztero-, czworo-, czwór-

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish cztery. Doublet of kwadra and kwarta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂtɛ.rɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂtɛ.rɨ/, /ˈt͡ʂte.rɨ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛrɨ
  • Syllabification: czte‧ry

Numeral

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cztery

  1. four

Declension

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), cztery is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 65 times in scientific texts, 185 times in news, 67 times in essays, 33 times in fiction, and 23 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 373 times, making it the 133rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

Noun

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cztery n (indeclinable)

  1. (education) four (grade in school)

Coordinate terms

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References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “cztery”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 63

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