obrazami

Obrazami is the instrumental plural form of the Polish noun obraz, which means an image, picture, painting, or icon. In everyday language, obraz can refer to a visual representation of any kind, including photographs, drawings, and works of art, as well as symbolic or figurative representations.

As a grammatical form, obrazami is used to indicate means or accompaniment in the instrumental case. It answers questions such as “by means of what?” or “with what?” and is commonly found in phrases describing the use of images or visual material. For example, in a publishable article one might say: “Posłużyliśmy się obrazami, aby zilustrować artykuł” (We used images to illustrate the article). This form can also denote the presence of multiple images being involved in a process, such as curation, reproduction, or presentation.

In addition to its general sense, obraz can refer specifically to paintings in an art-historical context or to icons in religious settings, with obrazami preserving the same instrumental plural form when used in sentences about using or handling those items. The word is closely related to the adjectival form obrazowy, meaning “visual, pictorial, related to images,” and to other derived terms that describe imagery or depiction.

Etymology traces obraz to roots in the Polish and broader Slavic linguistic family, where it denotes likeness or representation. The instrumental plural obrazami is one of several case forms that Polish nouns adopt to convey role, method, or association within a sentence.