rocznemu

Rocznemu is the dative singular form of the Polish adjective roczny, meaning annual or yearly. The base roczny is formed from rok (year) with the suffix -czny and is used to describe something that recurs every year or relates to a year-long period.

In Polish, adjectives decline by gender, number and case. The dative singular masculine and neuter form of roczny is rocznemu. The feminine dative form is rocznej, the nominative feminine is roczna, and the nominative neuter is roczne. Thus rocznemu appears specifically with masculine or neuter nouns in the dative case, for example after verbs or prepositions that govern the dative.

Usage of rocznemu tends to occur in more formal or official contexts and in phrases where the noun is in the dative case. It often appears in administrative, financial or planning language. For example:

- rocznemu budżetowi (to the annual budget)

- rocznemu programowi (to the annual program)

- rocznemu przeglądowi (to the annual inspection)

Common everyday speech more frequently employs the attributive form roczny to describe a yearly attribute directly (for example, roczny koszt, roczny raport). Rocznemu thus functions as a grammatically bound inflected form that enables precise expression of annual relations in sentences where the target noun is in the dative.

Etymology traces roczny to rok, the Polish word for year, with the descriptive suffix -czny, yielding a term that denotes something connected with or occurring within a year. See also roczny and annual.