Klientowi

Klientowi is the dative singular form of the Polish noun klient, meaning client or customer. In Polish grammar, forms like klientowi are used to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, or the person to whom something is directed, typically following verbs that require a dative object or indirect object.

Usage and examples. The dative form klientowi appears in sentences such as: Daj to klientowi (Give this to the client). Pomóż klientowi w rozwiązaniu problemu (Help the client with solving the problem). Przypomnij klientowi o terminie spotkania (Remind the client about the appointment). The form also occurs in polite or formal contexts within business, service, and customer-support language. Note that the masculine noun klient has a feminine counterpart, klientka, whose dative form is klientce.

Morphology and related forms. Klientowi is the masculine singular dative; the nominative is klient, and the genitive is klienta. The plural forms are dative klientom and genitive klientów. In everyday language, the choice between dative and other cases depends on the verb and preposition used.

Etymology and use in Polish. The word klient derives from historical sources in Polish vocabulary for buyer or patronage relationships, with linage traced to Latin cliens via Romance or Western European borrowings. In modern Polish, klient and its inflected forms, including klientowi, are common in commerce, service industries, and legal or administrative language when referring to a client or customer and actions directed toward them.

See also. Klient, klientka, case endings in Polish, dative case, Polish business vocabulary.