kommersiële

Kommersiële is an adjective used in Dutch and Afrikaans to describe things connected with commerce or intended to generate profit. It is commonly used to refer to the commercial sector, commercial activities, or items produced for market sale. In standard Dutch, the corresponding form is comerciantes? Actually the standard forms are commercieel (masculine) and commerciële (feminine or plural); the spelling with an initial k and diaeresis form, kommersiële, is not common in contemporary Dutch and may appear in older texts or dialectal usage. In Afrikaans the related adjective is kommersieel or kommersiële, with the same general sense of commercial or business-related.

Etymology and sense: the word derives from the Latin commercium ("trade") through the French and Dutch pathways that gave rise to the modern term commercieel/commerciële. The sense centers on activities and objects tied to buying, selling, and the pursuit of profits within the market economy.

Usage and scope: kommersiële is used to describe sectors (the commerciële/kommersiële sector), media and advertising funded by commercial interests (kommersiële reclame, commerciële zender), products and services aimed at consumers, and business-oriented contexts. It is often contrasted with non-commercial or nonprofit contexts, using phrases like niet-kommersieel or niet-commercieel to denote the opposite.

See also: commerce, commercial, advertising, marketing, non-commercial.