przysugujacy

Przysługujący is a Polish adjective used in formal and legal contexts to describe something that is due, owed, or applicable to a person or group by law, contract, or custom. It commonly qualifies rights, benefits, or obligations that a party is entitled to or obliged to receive. Examples include prawa przysługujące obywatelom (rights owed to citizens) or świadczenia przysługujące pracownikom (benefits due to employees).

The term is derived from the verb przysługować, meaning “to be due” or “to be owed.” The adjective has gender and number forms that agree with the noun it modifies, such as przysługujący (masc. sing.), przysługująca (fem. sing.), and przysługujące (neut./plural).

Usage and nuance: przysługujący is relatively formal and most often appears in legal, administrative, or policy texts rather than in everyday speech. It denotes entitlement or applicability rather than mere possibility, and it is commonly used with nouns referring to rights, benefits, duties, or obligations. For example, “świadczenia przysługujące pracownikom” emphasizes benefits that employees are entitled to.

Notes: In texts without diacritics, the form may appear as przyslugujacy, though the canonical spelling with diacritics is przysługujący. The concept is closely related to, but distinct from, more general terms like należny or wymagany, which may carry slightly different connotations depending on context.

See also: przysługować, prawa, świadczenia, obywatele.