Karcie

Karcie is a grammatical form of the Polish noun karta, which broadly means “card.” The noun karta refers to a flat object that bears information, value, or access, and it appears in many everyday senses. In Polish, karcie is specifically the dative singular and locative singular form of karta, and it is used according to the case requirements of the sentence, often with prepositions that convey location or direction.

The noun karta has a wide range of meanings in modern Polish. It denotes playing cards (karty do gry), identification or access cards (karty identyfikacyjne, karty dostępu), payment cards (karty płatnicze, w tym karty kredytowe i debetowe), and memory cards (karty pamięci). The term also appears in compound expressions such as karta lojalnościowa (loyalty card) and karta katalogowa (catalog card). In computing and technology, phrases like karta pamięci and karta SIM are common, with karcie appearing in appropriate cases within longer phrases (for example, na karcie kredytowej, w karcie pamięci).

Etymologically, karta comes from Latin carta, via French carte, and has been integrated into Polish with various inflectional forms, including karcie for certain cases in the singular. The use of karcie is therefore tied to the grammatical context rather than representing a separate lexical entry.

Overall, karcie functions as a grammatical form tied to the broader concept of “card” in Polish, a term that covers a diverse set of objects used for gameplay, identification, access, payment, and data storage. See also karta for the base noun and its broader meanings.