dopiero

== Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish dopiro. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛrɔ Syllabification: do‧pie‧ro === Particle === dopiero barely, scarcely, just Synonym: zaledwie Ona dopiero wróciła do domu kiedy kolejna katastrofa się wydarzyła. ― She had scarcely returned home when the next catastrophe occurred. used for emphasis; now To dopiero był mecz! ― Now that was a match! of something that hasn’t started yet and is yet to happen; yet, only To się dopiero wydarzy. ― It is yet to happen. Będziemy tam dopiero za dwa miesiące. ― We will only be there in two months, it will be two months before we are there. used to mark someone as being the first to do something Dopiero Maria Skłodowska-Curie odkryła polon i rad. ― Marie Curie was the first to discover polonium and radium. (obsolete) synonym of od dawna (“for ages, long since”) (obsolete) not only; all the more (obsolete) synonym of już (“already”) (Middle Polish) synonym of tylko (“just, only”) (Middle Polish) synonym of wtedy (“then”) (Middle Polish) synonym of w końcu / wreszcie (“finally, at last”) (Middle Polish) synonym of nuże (“go on! keep it up!”) (Middle Polish, Masuria, Podlachia, Drohiczyn) synonym of teraz (“now”) ==== Usage notes ==== Combined forms for this word are uncommon and often formed for stylization. ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), dopiero is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 47 times in scientific texts, 20 times in news, 35 times in essays, 61 times in fiction, and 66 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 229 times, making it the 237th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === Modern Standard Polish: “dopiero”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “dopiero”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) Middle Polish: Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “dopiero”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish] “DOPIERO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 15.01.2015 Historic dictionaries: Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “dopiero”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “dopiero”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “dopiero”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 512 Dialectal dictionaries: Jan Karłowicz (1900), “dopiero”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 350