instrumentów

Instrumentów to genitive plural form of the Polish noun instrument. The base form is instrument. The word refers to any device or tool designed to perform a function, and its use spans fields such as music, science, medicine and industry. In Polish, instrumentów is used when the noun is in the genitive plural, for example after numerals and certain determiners.

Grammatical usage is governed by Polish number agreement. After numerals five and higher, or with words that require the genitive plural, we say pięć instrumentów, więcej instrumentów, kilka instrumentów. The form also appears in noun phrases describing categories or types, such as instrumentów muzycznych (musical instruments) and instrumentów pomiarowych (measurement instruments).

Semantically, instrumentów can refer to musical instruments as a class or to any device used to perform a task. The term is common in technical and scientific language, where it collocates with adjectives that name domains: instrumentów pomiarowych, instrumentów medycznych, instrumentów laboratoryjnych, and similar formulations. In everyday language, the distinction between instrument and tool is sometimes blurred, but instrumentów retains its reference to devices designed for measurement, control, or performance, as well as to musical devices.

Etymology and usage notes: instrumentów derives from the classical root instrumentum, brought into Polish with the usual plural suffix -ów for masculine nouns. The word is ubiquitous across disciplines, and its genitive plural form is a standard element of many technical and descriptive phrases.