poprawa

== Polish == === Etymology === Deverbal from poprawić. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Kashubian pòprawa, Silesian poprawa, and Carpathian Rusyn поправа (poprava). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ava Syllabification: po‧pra‧wa Homophone: Poprawa === Noun === poprawa f improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better) [with w (+ locative) ‘at what’] improvement (change in one's behavior for the better) Synonym: korekta improvement, recovery (change in one's health for the better) (obsolete) repair (fixing or repairing) Synonyms: naprawa, reperacja (obsolete) increase (act of making larger or higher in value) ==== Declension ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poprawa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 10 times in news, 46 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 970th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === “poprawa”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “poprawa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) “POPRAWA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.01.2009 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “poprawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “poprawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “poprawa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 667 == Silesian == === Etymology === Deverbal from poprawić. Compare Polish poprawa. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔˈpra.va/ Rhymes: -ava Syllabification: po‧pra‧wa === Noun === poprawa f improvement; reform, amendment, enhancement, betterment (change of state for the better) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === poprawa in silling.org