pieszego

Pieszego is the genitive singular form of the Polish word pieszy, which denotes a pedestrian or something related to walking. The base form pieszy is an adjective meaning “pedestrian” and can also appear substantively to refer to a person on foot. Pieszego, as a grammatical form, appears in sentences where the head noun requiring genitive case is about the pedestrian or the pedestrian’s relation to another element.

In traffic and legal language, pieszego is used in phrases that involve a single pedestrian. It marks the pedestrian as the object of a verb or a preposition in genitive constructions, for example ustąpienie pierwszeństwa pieszemu (the obligation to yield to a pedestrian). The typical collective term for pedestrians is pieszych (plural), while pieszego remains the singular genitive form. The standard crosswalk term is przejście dla pieszych, meaning “pedestrian crossing,” not “przejście dla pieszego.”

Overview: The word pieszy refers to pedestrians; pieszego is the genitive form used in grammatical constructions and in law and policy texts. The distinction between pieszy (nominative) and pieszego (genitive) is an aspect of Polish morphology rather than a separate concept. Understanding this form helps in interpreting official documents and traffic regulations that address pedestrians.