kontaktow

Kontaktow is the genitive plural form of the Polish noun kontakt, which generally means “contacts” or “points of contact.” It is used to refer to interpersonal or business connections, channels of communication, or, in a broader sense, sets of people or entities one can reach. In technical contexts it can also appear in phrases describing contact points or connections within systems, though the everyday sense remains primary in common usage.

Etymology and forms: The noun kontakt is a loanword adopted into Polish from European languages, with equivalents in German (Kontakt) and French (contact), ultimately tracing back to Latin contactus. In Polish, the base forms are singular kontakt and plural kontakty; the genitive plural is kontaktow, used after numerals and in constructions requiring the genitive case. In many contexts the nominative plural refers to people or entities as kontakty, while kontatkow is reserved for genitive or partitive uses.

Usage notes: Kontaktow appears in phrases such as brak kontaktow (no contacts), lista kontaktow (list of contacts), or liczba kontaktow w bazie danych (the number of contacts in the database). It is common in administrative, social, and business writing to express quantities or sets of contacts. In contrast, for the plural nominative describing the actual items one can reach, the form kontakty is typically used, or kontakty is preferred in many modern contexts.

See also: contact (related terms in Polish include kontakt, kontakty, and kontakter używany do opisu pojęć relacyjnych i technicznych).