mladích

Mladích is a grammatical form in the Czech language that arises from the adjective mladý, meaning young. It is not a separate word with its own lexical meaning, but a stressed inflected form used to modify nouns in certain cases and numbers. In most everyday usage, the idea “the young” is expressed with the noun phrase mladí or with phrases like mladí lidé; mladích does not carry an independent semantic sense.

Usage and context: The form mladích appears in particular grammatical contexts and can surface in older, formal, or dialectal texts. It is not the standard or most common inflection for contemporary everyday Czech. When speakers intend to refer to a group described as young, they typically rely on the nominative mladí or the common compound mladí lidé, and in genitive plural they usually use mladých (e.g., mladých lidí).

Relation to other forms: The word mladý is declined across gender, number, and case, producing several inflected variants. Mladích is part of this broader paradigm, but it is not the default form for modern standard Czech. Learners are generally advised to recognize mladích as a less frequent or regionally marked variant, rather than a primary way to denote young people.

See also: Czech grammar, Czech adjectives, declension, youth in language.