typ

See also: TYP, Typ, and тур

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Kuku-Thaypan.

Symbol

typ

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kuku-Thaypan.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kuku-Thaypan terms

Czech

Etymology

Derived from German Typ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪp]

• Audio:

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

Noun

typ m inan (relational adjective typový)

1. (programming) type

Declension

Declension of typ (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	typ	typy
genitive	typu	typů
dative	typu	typům
accusative	typ	typy
vocative	type	typy
locative	typu	typech
instrumental	typem	typy

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), 2008–2026

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ip

Verb

typ

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

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-der.

Proto-Hellenic *túpt͏̌ō

Ancient Greek τῠ́πτω (tŭ́ptō)deverb.

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos)der.

Ecclesiastical Latin typuslbor.

French typebor.

Polish typ

Borrowed from French type. First attested in 1688.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɘp/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /tɨp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɘp
• Syllabification: typ

Noun

typ m inan

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

   Synonyms: (archaic) autorament, model, rodzaj

   • 1938, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Trzy serca, Warszawa: Towarzystwo Wydawnicze „RÓJ”, page 175:

     Drozd, który świeżo wrócił z Londynu, gdzie miał swój autorecital, zachwycał się limerykami, czyli typem pięciowierszowych fraszek bardzo popularnych w Anglii. […]

     Drozd, who had just returned from London, where he had given his own recital, was delighted with limericks, a type of five-line epigram very popular in England. […]

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)

Declension

Declension of typ

	singular	plural
nominative	typ	typy
genitive	typu	typów
dative	typowi	typom
accusative	typ	typy
instrumental	typem	typami
locative	typie	typach
vocative	typie	typy

Derived terms

nouns

• biotyp

phrases

• ten typ tak ma

prepositions

• w typie

verbs

• być w typie impf

Noun

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.

Declension

Declension of typ

	singular	plural
nominative	typ	typowie, typy1
genitive	typa	typów
dative	typowi	typom
accusative	typa	typów
instrumental	typem	typami
locative	typie	typach
vocative	typie	typowie

¹Deprecative.

Descendants

• → Kashubian: tip
• → Silesian: typ

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.

Further reading

• “typ”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “typ”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)
• 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:

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Noun

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

Usage notes

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

Declension

Declension of typ

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	typ	typs
	definite	typen	typens
plural	indefinite	typer	typers
	definite	typerna	typernas

See also

• slag
• sort

Adverb

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.

See also

• liksom

References

• “typ”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “typ”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “typ”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)