aktualnych

Aktualnych is a grammatical form of the Polish adjective aktualny, meaning current, up-to-date or relevant. It denotes things that belong to the present time or are considered timely. The form aktualnych appears most often as the genitive plural of aktualny, and it also occurs in other cases with the same ending in plural, such as the locative plural after prepositions like o or w.

Etymology and function: The adjective aktualny comes from the noun aktualność (timeliness, relevance) and is used to describe information, plans, events, technologies and other nouns in a way that signals contemporaneity. In Polish, adjectives agree with the noun in gender, number and case, so aktualnych is one of several plural endings produced by this paradigm, depending on the syntactic role and the noun it modifies.

Usage and examples: The word is common in media, business and everyday language. Examples include aktualne informacje (current information), aktualne dane (current data), and o aktualnych wydarzeniach (about current events). The genitive plural aktualnych commonly appears after verbs or prepositions that govern genitive or after nouns in phrases such as aktualnych trendów (current trends) or braki aktualnych danych (lack of current data).

Related terms: The related noun aktualność denotes timeliness or relevance; aktualizacja refers to an update, and aktualizować means to update. These terms form a semantic cluster around the idea of currency and timeliness in Polish.