Kapitalizujesz

Kapitalizujesz is the second-person singular present tense form of the Polish verb kapitalizować. The lemma kapitalizować means to capitalize, and the form капитализujesz is used when addressing someone directly with “you capitalize” or “you are capitalizing.” The verb has several related senses and is used in different domains, sometimes with distinct meanings.

In finance and accounting, kapitalizować refers to treating expenses or costs as capital assets rather than as current expenses. For example, a company may kapitalizować koszty badania i rozwoju, or kapitalizować odsetki, which means adding interest to the value of an asset rather than expensing it immediately. In this sense, capitalization affects balance sheets and depreciation schedules.

In typography and text processing, kapitalizacja (capitalization) concerns converting letters to uppercase. Kapitalizować litery or wykonywać kapitalizację liter refers to turning lowercase into capital letters, such as capitalizing the first word of a sentence or proper nouns.

More generally, kapitalizować can also mean to capitalize on something—i.e., to take advantage of a situation or opportunity. In this sense, you might say kapitalizujesz na czyimś błędzie, meaning you are exploiting or leveraging someone else’s mistake.

Etymology traces kapitalizować to the concept of capital (kapitał) and to the broader idea of turning something into capital or using it for gain. The form kapitalizujesz is widely understood in Polish-speaking business, legal, and informal contexts, with nuances depending on the domain.