bajtów

Bajtów is the genitive plural form of the Polish noun bajt, which denotes a unit of digital information equal to eight bits. The term bajt is borrowed from English byte, via German Byte, and has become the standard Polish word for memory and data quantities in computing.

In Polish, the basic forms of the noun are bajt (singular), bajty (nominative plural), and bajtów (genitive plural). The form bajtów is used in contexts that express quantity or measurement, such as after numerals or in phrases like pojemność pamięci wynosi 256 bajtów, kilka bajtów danych, or pamięć została alokowana na 1024 bajtów.

Bajt is widely used in everyday and technical language to refer to storage size and data transfer capacity. The standard unit of one bajt equals eight bitów. In more formal or standards-oriented contexts, the synonym octet is sometimes used to emphasize exactly eight bits, especially in ISO or technical documentation.

Beyond basic usage, Polish commonly combines bajt with prefixes to form larger units common in computing, such as kilobajt, megabajt, gigabajt, and terabajt, with corresponding forms like kilobajtów and megabajtów when required by grammar. These terms mirror international naming conventions while integrating into Polish morphology.

See also: byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte.