lepiej
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Old Polish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]lepiej
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěpěje.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.pjɛj/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.pjej/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛpjɛj
- Syllabification: le‧piej
Adverb
[edit]lepiej
Particle
[edit]lepiej
- had better, better (should; ought to; need to; must)
- Lepiej się już zbieraj, bo spóźnisz się na pociąg. ― You'd better get going or you'll miss your train.
- Już lepiej się pouczmy do tej klasówki, bo znowu oblejemy. ― We'd better study for this test or we'll fail again.
Trivia
[edit]According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), lepiej is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 17 times in scientific texts, 16 times in news, 26 times in essays, 43 times in fiction, and 90 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 192 times, making it the 291st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- lepiej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- lepiej in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Silesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]lepiej
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛpjɛj
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- Rhymes:Silesian/ɛpjɛj
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