Stany

Stany is a Polish noun that primarily means states or conditions, and serves as the plural form of stan (state, condition, situation). In everyday language it is used to describe various states of things or beings, such as the state of a device, a person’s mood, or the status of an event. In scientific and academic contexts, stany often appears in compound phrases like stany skupienia, which refers to phases or states of matter.

As a grammar item, stan is masculine and inanimate; its plural nominative form is stany, with other forms changing by case and number (e.g., stanów in the genitive, stanom in the dative). The word also functions as a root in wider expressions such as stan zdrowia (health status), stan przygotowania (level of readiness), and similar phrases describing conditions or statuses.

In political and geographic usage, stany can appear in proper nouns or historic terminology. The most familiar example in Polish is the name for the United States, Stany Zjednoczone, where stany translates to “states.” The term may also occur in place names or regional designations in Slavic-speaking areas, reflecting its sense of location or condition in a broader sense.

See also: United States in Polish (Stany Zjednoczone). The word stany remains a common, neutral term in Polish for discussing states, conditions, and related concepts across various domains.