No. 11,481 in Polish
jednemu
"Jednemu" means "to one" in English.
In a sentence
Pomogliśmy jednemu chłopakowi naprawić rower.
We helped one guy fix his bike.
In this sentence, 'jednemu' is the dative form of 'jeden', meaning 'one', used to refer to a specific individual indirectly.
Najpierw musisz dać jednemu klucz, dopiero potem możesz kontynuować.
First, you need to give one of them the key, only then can you proceed.
Here 'jednemu' again is dative, indicating the one person receiving the object in a specific context.
Gdybyś pozwolił jednemu z nas pójść, byłoby łatwiej.
If you let one of us go, it would be easier.
In this case, 'jednemu' is used in the dative case, referring to one person out of a set (here 'us').
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