drobnych

Drobnych is a Polish term that can appear in linguistic and onomastic contexts. As a grammatical form, drobnych is the genitive plural of the adjective drobny, which means small, fine, or delicate. It is used in phrases describing plural nouns. For example: “drobnych kawałków stali” (of small pieces of steel) or “drobnych rzeczy” (small things). In Polish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case, so the form drobnych surfaces when the noun is in plural and in the genitive or accusative cases, depending on the construction. The form also appears in other inflected contexts where the plural genitive is required, such as in partitive phrases or after numerals.

In onomastics and family names, drobny is a common Polish surname, whereas drobnych may appear in historical or genealogical texts as the genitive plural of a family name such as Drobny, referring to “the Drobny family.” The form is not typically used as a standalone surname in modern records but may occur in archival references and older documents.

Notes: Drobny and its variants are tied to the root word meaning small or fine; the term drobnych should be understood within the framework of Polish inflection and naming conventions. See also drobny, drobnost, and related adjectives.