powiadom

Powiadom is the imperative form of the Polish verb powiadomić, meaning to inform or notify. It is used to instruct someone to relay information to another person or to alert someone to a fact or event. Examples: Powiadom mnie, gdy będziesz gotowy. Powiadom ich o zmianie terminu.

Grammatical notes: Powiadom is the second-person singular imperative. For formal or plural address, forms such as powiadomcie exist, and a polite usage is often expressed with proszę powiadomić. The verb is transitive and combines with a direct object (Powiadom kogoś o czymś: Powiadom mnie o tym; Powiadom ich o zmianie).

The action is typically viewed as a single, completed notification when used with powiadomić; by contrast, powiadamiać denotes habitual or repeated informing.

Etymology: powiadom is derived from the prefix po- combined with informować (to inform). The related noun powiadomienie means a notification.

Usage: powiadom is common in everyday speech, journalism, business communication, and IT contexts, where it appears in instructions or commands. In more formal contexts, zawiadomić is a synonym with slightly more formal nuance, while prośba o informowanie can be expressed as "proszę powiadomić." The term powiadom and its derivatives also appear in software notifications and user-alert messages.