niemieckiemu

Niemieckiemu is a Polish inflected form of the adjective niemiecki, meaning “German.” It is the dative singular form used with masculine or neuter nouns. In Polish, adjectives decline for gender, number, and case, and the ending -emu marks the dative singular for masculine and neuter nouns, while feminine dative ends in -ej (niemieckiej).

The form appears in phrases where a German-related descriptor modifies a noun in the dative case. For example, in do-oriented constructions or when giving something to a German person: Daj to niemieckiemu profesorowi (Give this to the German professor). Other sample combinations include niemieckiemu państwu (to the German state) or niemieckiemu dziecku (to the German child). The use of niemieckiemu follows standard Polish grammar for adjectives preceding a noun in the dative case.

Niemiecki, from which niemieckiemu derives, is an adjective meaning “German” and is related to Niemiec, the Polish word for Germany or a German person. The form niemieckiemu encodes only grammatical information (case, gender, number) and does not carry a separate lexical meaning beyond that of niemiecki when declined.

In practice, niemieckiemu functions as a morphologically marked form rather than an independent word. Correct usage depends on matching the target noun’s gender (masculine or neuter) and placing the adjective in the dative case as required by the governing verb or preposition.