Placów

Placów is the genitive plural form of the Polish noun plac, which means a public square or open space in a town or city. The form placów is used when referring to more than one square or when plac appears in phrases in the genitive plural.

In Polish grammar, placów is common in contexts describing multiple squares or in compound phrases where plac is the head noun and another noun modifies its type. For example, placów zabaw refers to playgrounds, placów targowych to market squares, and brak placów means “no squares.” The form is also encountered in maps, inventories, and geographic descriptions that enumerate or discuss several squares.

Plac, the singular form, covers both the notion of a central open space in urban design and a more general “place” or space. The genitive plural placów is a regular inflection used to indicate quantity, possession, or association in phrases involving more than one square or in patterns where plac is part of a larger compound noun.

Because placów zabaw and similar phrases are common in everyday language, the genitive plural placów frequently appears in media, planning documents, and discussions of urban space. It is not typically used as a standalone term; rather, it functions as the grammatical form within larger expressions that reference multiple squares or types of squares.