genetskih

Genetskih is a grammatical form of the adjective genetski, used in several South Slavic languages such as Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. It represents the genitive plural form and is used when the noun it describes is in the genitive case or when a genitive construction is required by the surrounding grammar.

In everyday scientific and technical writing, genetskih commonly appears in phrases that translate to “genetic” or “genetics” in English, where the noun is in the genitive. For example, genetskih istraživanja refers to genetic research, and genetskih markera refers to genetic markers. The form is determined by the noun’s gender and number and denotes agreement in the genitive plural, typically with masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns in that case.

Etymology and relation to other terms: genetski comes from genetska/genetsko and ultimately from the word genetika, the term for genetics, itself derived from Greek roots related to origin and creation. In a sentence, genetskih does not carry a separate meaning beyond its grammatical function; its role is to modify a noun in a genitive context.

Usage notes: When writing in these languages, correct use of genetskih requires attention to the noun it modifies and to the syntactic role within the sentence. It is one of several inflected forms of the root meaning relating to genetics and should be distinguished from the base adjective form genetski, which appears in nominative contexts.