Obywatelkami

Obywatelkami is the instrumental plural form of the Polish feminine noun obywatelka, meaning a female citizen. It denotes a group of women who are citizens and is used when the sentence requires the instrumental case. In everyday Polish, the masculine personal form obywatele is typically used for mixed-gender groups, while the feminine nominative plural obywatelki refers to female citizens in the subject position.

Grammatical notes: the noun obywatelka declines like a feminine first-declension noun. In plural forms, the instrumental plural is obywatekami or obywatelkami depending on the stem, with the standard form being obywatekami (contextually written as obywatelkami in feminine form). The full paradigm includes: nominative plural obywatelki; genitive plural obywatelek; dative plural obywatelkom; instrumental plural obywatelkami; locative plural obywatelkach; vocative plural obywatelki.

Usage: obywatelkami appears primarily in contexts that explicitly refer to women and require instrumental case. It is common in legal, political, or sociological texts when discussing actions, rights, or roles carried out by or with female citizens. For mixed groups or for generic references to citizens, other forms such as obywatele (mixed groups) or obywatelki (feminine nominative) are used.

Examples:

- Konsultacje z obywatelkami przyniosły wiele uwag.

- Porozumienie zostało zawarte z obywatelkami lokalnej społeczności.

- Debata prowadzona była z udziałem obywatelkami i przedstawicielami organizacji.