Klientja

Klientja is a noun form found in Albanian, used to refer to a client with attention to gender. The base word is klijent, meaning “client,” and the definite feminine form klientja follows Albanian morphology, where feminine nouns can take the definite suffix -ja to indicate “the” in a gender-specific way. In practice, many speakers use the masculine definite klienti for generic references to a client regardless of gender, while klientja appears in contexts where the speaker explicitly marks the client as female or where gender is grammatially relevant.

Etymology and classification: Klientja derives from the Albanian adaptation of the Romance borrowings for “client,” such as Italian cliente or French client, which themselves trace back to the Latin cliens “a dependent or follower.” The feminine definite form conforms to standard Albanian noun-formation patterns, where feminine nouns often attach -ja to signal definiteness.

Usage and examples: Klientja can appear in formal or written Albanian to specify a female client, for example: “Klientja mbeti këtu gjatë tërë ditës.” (The female client stayed here all day.) In many everyday sentences, though, speakers default to klienti or use the gender-neutral construction without a gender-specific form.

See also: Klient.

Notes: Klientja is primarily an Albanian morphological form rather than a distinct semantic concept. Its use depends on the speaker’s preference for gender marking and the formality of the context.