Procentowej

Procentowej is a grammatical form in Polish. It is the feminine singular genitive, dative, or locative form of the adjective procentowy, which means percent or percentage. It is used to modify feminine nouns in those cases and is not a standalone noun.

In usage, procentowej appears when describing a quantity or rate expressed as a percentage, typically with a feminine noun such as stopa (rate). For example, the phrase wysokość stopy procentowej means the level of the interest rate, where procentowej is the genitive singular form modifying stopa. Another common construction is zmiana stopy procentowej, meaning a change in the interest rate. Thus, procentowej signals a relationship to a percentage and is common in finance, economics, and statistics.

Grammatically, procentowej is one of the inflected forms of the base adjective procentowy. The base form is used in masculine or neuter contexts (procentowy, procentowe) and in feminine nominative (procentowa). The form procentowej appears in several cases for feminine singular nouns: genitive, dative, and locative.

Etymologically, the word derives from procent, meaning percent, with the usual Polish adjectival suffix -owy, producing the feminine form procentowa and its declined variant procentowej. Related terms include stopa procentowa (interest rate) and oprocentowanie (the act of paying or receiving interest).