wieczystego

Wieczystego is the genitive singular form of the Polish adjective wieczysty, meaning perpetual, eternal or lasting for a very long time. The form is used in Polish to modify masculine singular nouns in the genitive case, for example in legal phrases such as prawa wieczystego użytkownika or umowy wieczystego użytkowania. In general, wieczysty as an adjective agrees with the noun it describes in gender, number and case, so wieczystego appears whenever the noun is masculine singular and in the genitive.

In Polish law the term is particularly associated with the concept of wieczyste użytkowanie, commonly translated as perpetual usufruct. This is a long-term right to use land owned by the state or local government, along with the ability to build and develop on it, while ownership of the land itself remains with the public authority. The holder of such a right is referred to as the wieczysty użytkownik (the perpetual user). The structure involves obligations such as periodic payments and regulatory conditions, and historically the arrangement spanned many decades. In recent years, reforms have addressed the transformation of these rights into full ownership under certain statutory mechanisms.

Beyond legal contexts, wieczystego can occur in historical or formal prose when the adjective describes a masculine noun in the genitive case. It is not used independently outside of a qualifying noun.

See also: Użytkowanie wieczyste, Wieczysty (adjective), Wieczność.