zerowego

Zerowego is a grammatical form of the Polish adjective zerowy, which means relating to zero or zero-based. It is the genitive singular masculine and neuter form of zerowy, used when describing masculine or neuter nouns in the genitive case. The base forms of zerowy are zerowy (masculine nominative), zerowa (feminine nominative), and zerowe (neuter nominative).

In usage, zerowy and its inflected forms occur frequently in mathematical and computing terminology to denote zero-based concepts or a position counted from zero. For example, phrases such as indeks zerowego elementu tablicy (the index of the zeroth element of an array) or wartość zerowego wyniku (the value of the zero-th result) employ zerowego to modify the noun in genitive. The form is selected to agree with the gender and case of the noun it accompanies.

Etymology and formation: zerowy is derived from the noun zero, itself borrowed into Polish from Italian zero, ultimately tracing back to the Arabic sifr. The suffix -owy is a productive Polish adjective-forming ending, yielding a meaning of “relating to” or “characteristic of.” The genitive singular zerowego arises from standard adjective declension rules, enabling grammatical agreement in longer noun phrases.

Notes: Zerowego functions strictly as a grammatical form and is not a standalone lexeme. Its feminine counterpart is zerowej, and other inflected forms exist to agree with different nouns and grammatical cases. In everyday language, the choice between zerowego and other forms depends on the gender, number, and case of the noun being described.