drugich

Drugich is a Polish grammatical form of the adjective drugi, meaning "second" or "other." It is not a standalone noun but a declined form used in specific grammatical cases. In Polish, drugich specifically represents the genitive plural and the locative plural forms of drugi.

The genitive plural usage of drugich appears after prepositions that require the genitive case, such as po a także wśród. A common example is the phrase niektórzy z drugich, meaning "some of the others." The locative plural form also appears after certain prepositions that govern the locative case, for example in contexts like wśród drugich, meaning "among the others."

In everyday usage, drugich primarily conveys the sense of "other" in contrast to a preceding noun or group, rather than the ordinal sense of "second" in a sequence. For example, gdy rozmawiamy o grupie drugich osób—when talking about the other people—uses this form to align with the case requirements of the surrounding words.

Etymology traces drugich to the Polish adjective drugi, with regular Slavic derivation. As a morphological form, it demonstrates how Polish adjectives inflect for number and case to modify masculine plural nouns (or related phrases) in contexts that require genitive or locative endings.

Summary: drugich is a Polish inflected form of drugi used in genitive plural and locative plural contexts to mean “of the others” or “among the others,” functioning as part of a larger noun phrase rather than as an independent word.