Cywilnym

Cywilnym is a Polish adjective form used as the instrumental case of cywilny, meaning civil or civilian. It appears in grammatical structures where the adjective describes a masculine personal or neuter noun in the instrumental singular, or where the sentence requires the instrumental with other gender contexts.

In Polish, adjectives decline for gender, number, and case. The instrumental singular forms are cywilnym for masculine personal and neuter nouns, and cywilną for feminine nouns. The plural instrumental form is cywilnymi. An example of usage is w cywilnym ubraniu, meaning “in civilian clothing.”

Semantically, cywilny relates to civilian life, non-military status, or civil law contexts. It is commonly used in phrases such as prawo cywilne (civil law), sprawy cywilne (civil cases), or służba cywilna (civil service). The term helps distinguish non-mederal or non-militarized aspects from military or state-security realms.

Etymology traces cywilnym to the base cywilny, derived from cywilny’s root cywil-, which comes from Latin civilis via the historical development of European languages. The word functions across formal and official discourse, particularly in legal, administrative, and sociopolitical vocabulary, where distinctions between civil and military or criminal spheres are important.

See also: cywilny, prawo cywilne, sprawy cywilne, służba cywilna.