Przemiennego

Przemiennego is the genitive singular masculine and neuter form of the Polish adjective przemienny, derived from the verb przemieniać, meaning to transform or change. In grammar, it is used when the noun it modifies is in the genitive case. The adjective przemienny generally conveys the sense of changeability or transformability, though in everyday Polish the more common term for “changeable” is zmienny.

In usage, przemiennego appears in phrases where a noun in genitive is described as being changeable or transformable. For example, cecha przemiennego charakteru describes a characteristic of changing or variable character; wartość przemiennego napięcia refers to the value of an alternating voltage, with napięcia in genitive and przemiennego qualifying it. These constructions occur in both everyday and technical language, particularly when the property being described is understood as variable or subject to transformation over time.

Etymology and semantics: the word arises from the verb przemieniać (to transform, to convert) and the suffix -ny to form an adjective. Its semantic field overlaps with other Polish terms for change, such as przemiana (transformation) and przemienność (transformability or convertibility), but przemiennego specifically denotes the genitive form of the adjective for grammatical purposes.

See also: przemiana, przemienność, zmiana. Notable related terms include prąd przemienny (alternating current) and napięcie przemienne, which illustrate common technical uses where the genitive form przemiennego appears in descriptive phrases.