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Oficjalny słownik polskiego scrabblisty ("The official dictionary of Polish scrabble players", abbreviated as OSPS) is a publication containing all Polish words allowed in the game of Scrabble in Polish. It is co-published by the Polish Scrabble Federation (Polish: Polska Federacja Scrabble) and the Polish Scientific Publishers PWN. It is also ...
The Polish alphabet (Polish: alfabet polski, abecadło) is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography. It is based on the Latin alphabet but includes certain letters (9) with diacritics : the acute accent – kreska : ć, ń, ó, ś, ź ; the overdot – kropka : ż ; the tail or ogonek – ą, ę ; and ...
Polish can have word-initial and word-medial clusters of up to four consonants, whereas word-final clusters can have up to five consonants. [68] Examples of such clusters can be found in words such as bezwzględny [bɛzˈvzɡlɛndnɨ] ('absolute' or 'heartless', 'ruthless'), źdźbło [ˈʑd͡ʑbwɔ] ('blade of grass'), wstrząs ...
Other English words were indirectly derived from Polish via Russian, French, German or Dutch. The Polish words themselves often come from other languages, such as German or Turkish. Borrowings from Polish tend to be mostly words referring to staples of Polish cuisine, names of Polish folk dances or specialist, e.g. horse-related, terminology ...
to add – dodać; to allow – zezwolić; to appear – pojawić się; to ask – zapytać; to be – być; to become – zostać; to begin – na początek
For information on formation and usage, see Numbers and quantifiers in the article on Polish grammar. 1 jeden like an adjective (feminine jedna etc., but neuter N/A jedno). The plural forms also exist (jedni/jedne etc.); they are used to mean "some", or to mean "one" with pluralia tantum (jedne drzwi "one door").
In words of foreign origin the i causes the palatalization of the preceding consonant n to /ɲ/, and it is pronounced as /j/. This situation occurs when the corresponding genitive form ends in -nii, pronounced as /ɲji/, not with -ni, pronounced as /ɲi/ (which is a situation typical to the words of Polish origin). For examples, see the table ...
plWordNet is a lexico-semantic database of the Polish language.It includes sets of synonymous lexical units followed by short definitions. plWordNet serves as a thesaurus-dictionary where concepts (synsets) and individual word meanings (lexical units) are defined by their location in the network of mutual relations, reflecting the lexico-semantic system of the Polish language.