Nujnih

Nujnih is a grammatical form found in several South Slavic languages, serving as the genitive plural of adjectives that mean "necessary" or "urgent." It is most commonly encountered in Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian texts, where the form is used to modify nouns in the genitive plural.

In Slovenian, nujnih appears as the genitive plural of the adjective nujen or nujen- forms, and it occurs in constructions that express necessity or essential conditions. Examples include brez nujnih pogojev (without essential conditions) and nujnih ukrepov (essential measures). In Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian, a closely related adjective, with forms such as nužan, yields a genitive plural nužnih, written with a diacritic in standard spelling. Both spellings reflect the same semantic field, though they belong to slightly different orthographic systems.

Etymology traces nujnih to Slavic roots meaning "necessary" or "required." The term is not a standalone noun but a declined form of an adjective used to indicate obligation, priority, or indispensability within a noun phrase. It is frequently found in legal, administrative, policy, and planning texts where precise qualifications of conditions, measures, or circumstances are important.

Usage notes emphasize that nujnih functions solely as a determiner in front of a noun and does not stand alone as a word with its own independent meaning. The form varies by language and case, with Slovenian favoring nujnih in the genitive plural and other languages using nužnih or similar variants. See also nužnost, nujno, and nužan for related terms describing necessity or urgency.