ostatnio

== Polish == === Etymology === From ostatni + -o. First attested in 1801. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔˈstat.ɲɔ/ Rhymes: -atɲɔ Syllabification: o‧stat‧nio === Adverb === ostatnio (not comparable) lately, recently, the other day Synonyms: niedawno, ostatnimi czasy Ostatnio dużo kaszlę, może powinienem pójść do lekarza na kontrolę. ― I've been coughing a lot lately, maybe I should go to the doctor for a checkup. last, last time, previously Synonyms: poprzednio, ostatnim razem Nie wiem, kiedy cię ostatnio widziałem. ― I don't know when I last saw you. === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ostatnio is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 57 times in news, 24 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 109 times, making it the 570th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “ostatnio”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “ostatnio”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “ostatnio”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 865