od razu

Polish

Etymology

Literally, “at once”. Ellipsis of od pierwszego razu (“from the first time”), a translation of French du premier coup.^[1] First attested in the second half of the 18th century.^[1] Compare English at once and Russian сра́зу (srázu).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔd ˈra.zu/
Audio: (file)
Syllabification: od ra‧zu

Adverb

od razu (not comparable)

(idiomatic) at once, right away, immediately (without waiting)
Synonyms: bezzwłocznie, natychmiast, natychmiastowo, z mety

Particle

od razu

(idiomatic) but (used to signal that what has been said is too much)
Synonym: zaraz

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), od razu is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 9 times in essays, 23 times in fiction, and 40 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 85 times, making it the 750th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[2]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “od razu”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “od razu”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 309