karcianych

Karcianych is a form found in the Polish language. It is the genitive plural of the adjective karciany, used to modify masculine personal or mixed nouns in the genitive plural. In Polish, adjectives agree with the nouns they describe in gender, number, and case; the genitive plural ending commonly appears as -ych, producing karcianych.

Use and meaning: The exact sense of karcianych depends on the noun it accompanies. For example, in a phrase like kolor karcianych tkanin, it marks a relationship of description or possession between the color and the fabrics described. The underlying adjective karciany is relatively uncommon in everyday speech and is more likely to appear in technical, historical, or dialectal contexts, or within set phrases. As a genitive plural form, karcianych often appears where a noun is omitted but the relationship is clear from context.

Usage notes: Like other Polish adjectives, karciany and its inflected forms decline to match the gender and case of the modified noun. The form karcianych is also encountered in other grammatical cases where the genitive plural is required, not only in standalone phrases but within larger sentences.

See also: Polish grammar; Adjective declension; Genitive case.