parę

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pare"

Polish

Etymology

Accusative singular of para.^[1] Compare trochę or Hungarian egy kicsit. First attested in 1559.^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (normal speech) /ˈpa.rɛ/, (careful speech) /ˈpa.rɛw̃/

(Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒ.rɛ̃/

Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -arɛw̃
Syllabification: pa‧rę

Determiner

parę

a couple of (an indeterminate but small amount of)
Synonym: kilka

I parę tygodni później pobraliśmy się. ― And a couple of weeks later, we got married.

Related terms

Noun

parę

accusative singular of para

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), parę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 9 times in scientific texts, 5 times in news, 12 times in essays, 44 times in fiction, and 26 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 96 times, making it the 654th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[3]

References

^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “parę”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “para”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “parę”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 356