naprawdę

== Polish == === Etymology === Univerbation of na +‎ prawdę. First attested in the end of the 19th century. Largely displaced zaprawdę. Compare Silesian naprŏwdy and Ukrainian напра́вду (naprávdu). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (normal speech) /naˈprav.dɛ/, (careful speech) /naˈprav.dɛw̃/ Rhymes: -avdɛw̃ Syllabification: na‧praw‧dę === Particle === naprawdę really, truly, actually (in fact; in reality) Synonyms: autentycznie, doprawdy really, truly (very) === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), naprawdę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 13 times in essays, 38 times in fiction, and 64 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 124 times, making it the 481st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === naprawdę in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN naprawdę in Polish dictionaries at PWN