osobistej

Osobistej is a Polish grammatical form that appears with the adjective osobisty, which means personal or private. It represents the feminine singular in the genitive, dative, and locative cases. The form is used when describing a feminine noun in these cases.

In practice, osobistej modifies feminine nouns within a phrase in one of those cases. For example, genitive: kolor osobistej torby (the color of the personal bag); locative: o osobistej torbie (about the personal bag). The same ending also occurs in the dative and other contexts where the feminine singular noun is inflected accordingly. These endings help indicate possession, relation, or the object of certain prepositions.

Etymology: the word derives from the root osoba, or osoba-related concepts meaning a person, combined with the adjective-forming suffix -isty. The result is an adjective meaning relating to or belonging to a person, which in its feminine singular inflection yields osobistej in several cases.

Usage notes: as a gender and case-specific ending, osobistej is limited to feminine singular nouns. Other genders and numbers use different inflections of the same base adjective osobisty. In standard prose, this form helps produce grammatically correct phrases such as descriptions of objects, belongings, or attributes tied to a feminine noun.

Related forms and variations appear across the Polish declension system, with feminine plural and masculine or neuter forms following their own respective endings.