# typ
## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from German Typ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɪp]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: typ
* Rhymes: -ɪp
* Homophone: tip

### Noun

typ m inan (relational adjective typový)
* (programming) type

#### Related terms

* atypický
* netypický
* typický
* týpek

### Further reading

* “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), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ip

### Verb

typ
* inflection of typen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French type. First attested in 1688.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɘp/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /tɨp/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɘp
* Syllabification: typ

### Noun

typ m inan
* (countable) type (grouping based on shared characteristics)
    Synonyms: (archaic) autorament, model, rodzaj
* (countable) type (individual considered typical of its class)
* (uncountable) guess (prediction about the outcome of something) [with na (+ accusative) ‘for what’]
    Synonyms: przypuszczenie, domysł
* (countable, film, literature) archetype (character presented as devoid of individual features and having only schematic features)
* (countable, taxonomy) phylum (rank in the classification of organisms)
* (countable, psychology) type (kind of mentality or psychology attributed to a person)
* (countable, obsolete, typography) type (letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block)

#### Derived terms

* biotyp
* ten typ tak ma
* w typie
* być w typie impf

### Noun

typ m pers (female equivalent typiara, diminutive typek)
* (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.

#### Declension
### Trivia

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.

### Descendants

* → Kashubian: tip
* → Silesian: typ

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “typ”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “typ”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
* ↑ Aleksandra Wieczorek (20.04.2021) “TYP”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
* ↑ “typ”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022
* ↑ “typ”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “typ”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 618

### Further reading

* 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

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

typ c
* a type
* a (disagreeable or suspicious) person/character, (often) a jerk
    Vilken typ!What a jerk!
    Han är en riktig typHe's a real jerk
    en underlig typa strange guy
    några skumma typersome shady guys
    Rolig typ det därI think he's funny ("Funny guy / character that")
* (printing) a type

#### Usage notes

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).

#### See also

* slag
* sort

### Adverb

typ
* (colloquial) kinda, ish, around
    Det var typ såIt was kinda like that
    Jag vill äta typ tjugo äggI want to eat twenty eggs, ish
    Typ som den där snubben vi såg igårKinda like that guy we saw yesterday
    Ja, typ!Yeah, kinda!
    Det var typ jättevarmt igårIt 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.

#### See also

* liksom

### References

* typ in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* typ in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* typ in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)