Nominalnymi

Nominalnymi is the instrumental plural form of the Polish adjective nominalny, meaning “nominal” or “pertaining to a noun.” In Polish grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case. When the noun is in the instrumental case and the phrase is plural, nominalny takes the ending -ymi, yielding nominalnymi. This form is used in descriptive phrases such as z nominalnymi formami rzeczowników (with nominal forms of nouns) or nominalnymi nazwami (with nominal names).

The function of nominalnymi is purely grammatical; it does not introduce a separate lexical item. It serves as one of the inflected forms of the base adjective nominalny, occurring in contexts where both the modified noun and the adjective are in the instrumental plural. Such contexts are common in academic, linguistic, or instructional texts about grammar and morphology.

Etymology traces nominalnym to Polish nominalny, itself from Latin nominalis, derived from nomen meaning “name,” reflecting the historical distinction between nominal (name-related) and verbal categories in many languages. In everyday usage, nominalny and its inflected forms describe relations to nouns, not to verbs. For learners, recognizing the -ymi ending helps identify instrumental plural adjectives across different stems; typical contexts include discussions of forms, categories, or naming conventions for nouns.

See also: Polish grammar, declension, instrumental case, adjectives, nominal.