Obecnymi

Obecnymi is a Slavic-language inflected form that appears in Polish and Czech as an instrumental plural of adjective stems based on obecný/obecny, meaning present/current in Polish and general/common/municipal in Czech. The exact meaning depends on the language and context.

In Polish, obecny means present or current. As an adjective it declines for gender, number, and case. The instrumental plural masculine personal form is obecnymi. It is used to describe a group or items that are present or involved in a situation, typically with a preposition such as z (with) or przy (with/at). For example, Z obecnymi rozmawialiśmy o projekcie (We spoke with the attendees about the project). The form also serves in broader phrases where “the present ones” or “the current ones” are being referenced in a masculine-personal plural sense.

In Czech, obecný can mean general, common, or municipal, depending on context. The instrumental plural form is obecnými, written with the diacritic on y. It occurs in phrases such as obecným pravidlům or s obecnými pravidly, conveying meaning like “by general rules” or “with the general rules.” The sense is distinct from the Polish present-oriented usage, aligning more with generality or customary practice.

Etymology traces both forms to Proto-Slavic roots related to being common or current in a broader sense. Although the exact sense of obecnym/obecnými shifts by language, the instrumental plural form orthographically resembles each other across Polish and Czech and is a typical marker of subcategorization in prepositional or adverbial constructions.