krajowi

Krajowi is the masculine personal plural nominative form of the Polish adjective krajowy, which means domestic, national, or local in relation to a country or region. It functions to describe masculine nouns in the plural when referring to people or other animate subjects.

The form is used with masculine personal nouns in the nominative plural. For example: Krajowi mieszkańcy protested their rights (Krajowi mieszkańcy protestowali). Another example: Krajowi producenci złożyli ofertę. In these contexts krajowi conveys the sense of within-the-country or locally/regionally based.

In other grammatical cases the form changes. For genitive and accusative plural, the adjective becomes krajowych; for dative and instrumental plural, it appears as krajowym; and in other cases as required by Polish declension rules. These variations reflect standard adjective agreement with different grammatical roles and noun genders.

Capitalization of the word is typically not used unless it appears as part of a proper noun or a historical or institutional name. In general, krajowi is a lowercase ordinary form when describing nouns.

Etymologically, krajowi derives from kraj, meaning country, land, or region, with the typical Polish adjectival suffix -owy, signifying relation or pertaining to. The term thus conveys a sense of something pertaining to a particular country or region, often contrasted with foreign or international contexts.