określony

Polish

Etymology

From określić + -ony.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔk.rɛɕˈlɔ.nɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔnɨ
  • Syllabification: ok‧reś‧lo‧ny

Adjective

określony (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. specific, defined, given
    Antonym: nieokreślony
  2. (literary, especially in political propaganda) that, certain (known to the listener but such that the speaker does not want to say which)

Declension

Participle

określony (passive adjectival)

  1. past passive adjectival participle of określić

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), określony is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 31 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 84 times, making it the 761st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “określony”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 330

Further reading

  • określony in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • określony in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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