graczowi

Graczowi is the dative singular form of the Polish noun gracz, meaning “player.” The word gracz denotes a person who participates in a game or sport, or a person who plays a game, and it can refer to players in sports teams as well as gamers. It is a masculine animate noun and follows the standard Polish declension pattern for masculine nouns ending in -acz.

In singular forms, the declension of gracz is: nominative gracz; genitive gracza; dative graczowi; accusative gracza; instrumental graczem; locative graczu; vocative graczu. Therefore graczowi is specifically used when the player is the indirect object or recipient of an action, or when the surrounding grammar requires the dative case.

Graczowi is commonly used in sentences such as:

- Daj to graczowi. (Give this to the player.)

- Dziękuję graczowi za udział w meczu. (I thank the player for participating in the match.)

It can also appear in contexts involving verbs that govern the dative, for example with certain constructions that denote giving or conveying something to the player.

Etymology and usage notes:

Graczowi derives from gracz with the standard dative ending -owi. In Polish, proper noun form and case endings determine how the word functions syntactically, and graczowi is distinct from the genitive form gracza and the instrumental form graczem.

See also: gracz (player), declension (Polish grammar).