Kategoriami

Kategoriami is the instrumental plural form of the Polish noun kategoria, meaning "categories." In Polish grammar, kategoriami is used where the instrumental case is required, such as when indicating the means by which something is done, or the elements involved in a process of classification. The term is commonly found in discussions of taxonomy, data organization, and metadata, where it refers to multiple categories that items can belong to or be sorted into.

Etymology and morphology: The base noun kategoria derives from Greek katégória (κατηγορία) and entered Polish via Latin and other vernacular routes. In Polish, feminine nouns ending in -a form the instrumental plural as -ami, yielding kategoriami. This form is the standard grammatical construction for describing several categories in contexts requiring instrumental case.

Usage notes: In modern Polish, phrases such as z kategoriami (with categories) illustrate how kategoriami is used after the preposition z. It appears in technical writing, library science, information technology, and academic prose when authors discuss classification schemes, content tagging, or taxonomy. While many everyday uses prefer other cases (for example, plural nominative or genitive), kategoriami remains the correct instrumental form for multi-category references in appropriate syntactic contexts.