typ

Derived from German Typ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪp]

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• Hyphenation: typ
• Rhymes: -ɪp
• Homophone: tip

typ m inan (related adjective typový)

1. (programming) type

• “typ”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “typ”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “typ”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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• Rhymes: -ip

typ

1. inflection of typen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from French type.^[1][2] First attested in 1688.^[3]

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• Rhymes: -ɘp
• Syllabification: typ

typ m inan

1. (countable) type (grouping based on shared characteristics)

   Synonyms: (archaic) autorament, model, rodzaj

2. (countable) type (individual considered typical of its class)
3. (uncountable) guess (prediction about the outcome of something) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]

   Synonyms: przypuszczenie, domysł

4. (countable, film, literature) archetype (character presented as devoid of individual features and having only schematic features)
5. (countable, taxonomy) phylum (rank in the classification of organisms)
6. (countable, psychology) type (kind of mentality or psychology attributed to a person)
7. (countable, obsolete, typography) type (letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block)

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typ m pers (female equivalent typiara, diminutive typek)

1. (countable, colloquial, derogatory) guy, sort, character (man that evokes a negative emotion from the speaker)

   Przy sklepie kręcił się jakiś dziwny typ w kapeluszu. ― Some strange guy in a hat was hanging around the store.

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), typ is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 60 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 40 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 139 times, making it the 431st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[6]

• → Kashubian: tip
• → Silesian: typ

• typ in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• typ in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “typ”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “typ”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 190

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typ c

1. a type
3. a (disagreeable or suspicious) person/character, (often) a jerk

   Vilken typ!

   What a jerk!

   Han är en riktig typ

   He's a real jerk

   en underlig typ

   a strange guy

   några skumma typer

   some shady guys

   Rolig typ det där

   I think he's funny ("Funny guy / character that")

4. (printing) a type

Usually but not always negative in (sense 2). Can be thought of as character with negative characteristics implied unless qualified (or as positive usage using a negative word somewhat ironically).

• slag
• sort

typ

1. (colloquial) kinda, ish, around

   Det var typ så

   It was kinda like that

   Jag vill äta typ tjugo ägg

   I want to eat twenty eggs, ish

   Typ som den där snubben vi såg igår

   Kinda like that guy we saw yesterday

   Ja, typ!

   Yeah, kinda!

   Det var typ jättevarmt igår

   It was like super hot yesterday (it was kinda like that)

   – Hur varmt är det ute? – Typ 20 grader.

   – How warm is it outside? – Around 20 degrees.

• liksom

• typ in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• typ in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• typ in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• typ in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)