Mnogi

Mnogi is a word used in several South Slavic languages, notably Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian, meaning "many" or "a large number." It functions as a determiner and adjective that modifies nouns and agrees in gender and number with the noun it describes. In standard usage, the masculine nominative plural form is mnogi, and the feminine nominative plural form is mnoge. Examples include mnogi ljudi (many people) and mnoge zemlje (many countries). The phrase mnogi od nas means "many of us," illustrating how mnogi can be used with a partitive construction to indicate a subset of a whole.

Etymology traces mnogi to the root mnogo, meaning "much" or "a lot," with an adjectival suffix that marks agreement with the noun. The related adverb mnogo is used more broadly to indicate a large amount and does not inflect for gender or number, as in Mnogo ljudi dolazi (Many people are coming) or Mnogo vremena potrebno je za to (A lot of time is needed for that).

In grammar, mnogi behaves as a quantifier that specifies the size of a group, contrasting with mnogo, which functions as an invariable quantifier or adverb. Both forms are common in everyday speech and writing, with mnogi emphasizing the size of a definite group and mnogo emphasizing a larger, less specific amount.

See also: mnogo, broj, velike količine.