prawnego

Prawnego is the genitive singular form of the Polish adjective prawny, meaning legal or lawful. It is used to attribute a legal quality to a noun and commonly appears in phrases where the modified noun is in the genitive case, or in fixed expressions that require this form. For example, in systemu prawnego (of the legal system) or obowiązku prawnego (of a legal obligation), prawnego is the form that agrees with masculine or neuter nouns in genitive.

In everyday language and legal texts, prawny describes things relating to law, rights, or the administration of justice. It can modify a wide range of nouns, from institutions and documents to concepts and actions, such as dokument prawny (a legal document) or ramy prawne (the legal framework). The feminine form is prawna, and the plural forms are prawni, prawne, prawne, depending on the noun being described.

Etymology traces prawnego back to prawo, meaning law. The adjective forms a productive part of Polish legal and administrative vocabulary and is often contrasted with prawny’s related but distinct term prawniczy, which more narrowly refers to something pertaining to the profession of law or to lawyers.

See also: prawo (law), prawnik (lawyer), prawniczy (juristic), prawa człowieka (human rights). In addition to its use as an adjective, the related adverb is prawnie, meaning legally. The word prawnego itself is not used as a standalone noun, but functions within noun phrases to specify legal characteristics.