szacunków

Szacunków is the genitive plural form of the Polish noun szacunek, which has two main meanings in Polish: respect and estimate. The form szacunków appears when szacunek is used in contexts that require the genitive plural, a common situation in formal or technical language. Because Polish nouns change form to reflect case and number, szacunków functions as the possessive or object in phrases governed by other words.

In the sense of estimates, szacunków is used in phrases such as liczba szacunków or bez szacunków. Here szacunków marks the plural estimates and appears after determiners or numerals that require a genitive construction, for example when stating the number of estimates or referring to estimates collectively. The construction is typical in administrative, financial, or legal writing.

Szacunków is distinct from szacunki, the nominative plural of szacunek, which also means estimates in many contexts but is used as the headline noun in typical phrases like szacunki kosztów or inne szacunki. The adjective szacunkowy and the verb form szacować/szacowanie relate concepts but belong to different grammatical trajectories. In statistical and scientific writing, oszacowanie or oszacowania is more common for the formal act of estimation, while szacunków appears primarily in genitive-based phrases.

See also: szacunek, szacunki, oszacowanie, oszacowania, szacunkowy.