drewniani

Drewniani is the masculine personal plural form of the Polish adjective drewniany, meaning wooden or made of wood. It is used to describe nouns that are masculine and refer to a group of people or beings in plural, for example in metaphorical or literary contexts. In standard Polish, drewniani contrasts with drewniane, which is used with feminine or neuter nouns and with non-personal plural nouns.

From a grammatical perspective, drewniani agrees with masculine personal plural nouns in the nominative case. The corresponding forms for other genders and numbers are drewniane (feminine plural and neuter/plural non-personal), drewnianego (genitive masculine), and so on, following typical Polish adjective agreement patterns. The base word is drewniany, derived from drewno, meaning wood.

Common usage centers on describing objects or beings that are literally made of wood, as in meble drewniane (wooden furniture) or podłoga drewniana (wooden floor). In figurative or stylistic language, the adjective can appear in creative phrases to evoke a sense of rustic or carved character, though such usage depends on context.

Etymology traces to drewno (wood) with the standard adjectival suffix -iany/-iany, forming a word for materials or qualities related to wood. Drewniani does not denote a specific geopolitical group or recognized entity in itself; it functions as a grammatical form within Polish, primarily describing wooden objects or, in some contexts, wooden beings or people in a figurative sense.

See also: drewniany, drewno, Polish adjectives.