Agentów

Agentów to genitive plural form of the Polish noun agent. The base noun agent refers to a person who acts on behalf of another, or to someone who operates in a specific role on behalf of an organization. The genitive plural agentów is used in constructions that require the genitive case, such as after numerals, prepositions, or verbs that govern genitive. It is distinct from the nominative plural agenci and from the genitive singular agenta.

In Polish, agentów appears in many contexts. In espionage or security terminology, it can denote multiple operatives, as in bez agentów (without agents) or kilku agentów (several agents). In everyday and professional language, the form is common in phrases like list agentów (a letter from the agents) or służba agentów, depending on the surrounding grammatical structure. The plural also occurs when discussing groups linked to a particular organization, such as agenci wywiadu or agenci nieruchomości, where the phrase would typically align with the broader noun governing the sentence.

The word agent itself is a loanword of Latin origin, via French, and has a wide range of figurative and literal senses in Polish. The genitive plural agentów is a routine form used to express quantity, possession, or association with a larger noun phrase. Related terms include agenci (nominative plural) and agentura (the agency or system of agents).