európskych

Európskych is the genitive plural form of the Slovak adjective európsky, meaning European. It is used with masculine or mixed-gender nouns in the genitive plural to express relation or belonging, as in phrases like európskych krajín (of European countries), európskych inštitúcií (of European institutions) or európskych projektov (of European projects).

In Slovak grammar, adjectives decline by gender, number and case. The base forms are európsky (masculine singular), európska (feminine singular) and európske (neuter singular). For plural, the nominative masculine plural is európski, while the genitive plural is európskych. Thus, európskych appears when describing plural nouns in the genitive, or in phrases where the noun it modifies is in the genitive case.

Etymology traces európsky back to Európa, the name of the continent, combined with the adjective-forming suffix -ský. The term is essentially equivalent to the Czech evropský and is widely used in Slovak political, legal, academic, and cultural discourse to denote European origin or association.

Common usage examples include discussions of policies, history, or culture relating to Europe, such as the impact of európskych rozhodnutí on Slovensko, or analyses of európskych institucí in Brussels. The form is a standard part of formal and neutral writing, without implying any specific political stance beyond the EuropeanConnection described by the noun it modifies.