osadzonych

Osadzonych is the genitive plural form of the Polish adjective osadzony, used to describe people who are placed in a particular situation. The word appears in two main, distinct contexts: historical or geographical references to settlers and legal or criminal-justice contexts referring to detained or imprisoned persons. The meaning depends on the context in which it is used.

In legal and journalistic language osadzonych typically denotes individuals who are held in custody or in a penal facility. It often occurs in phrases such as liczbą osadzonych w zakładach karnych (the number of inmates in penal institutions) where osadzonych is genitive because it modifies the noun liczba. In everyday speech the more common terms are więźniowie (prisoners) or osadzeni in more formal or administrative phrasing. The sense emphasizes confinement and detention rather than general arrest.

The other broad sense of the root osad- relates to settlement. Historically, osadzonych can refer to people who settled in a new area or region, i.e., settlers. In this context the nominative form osadzeni is used, and the term appears in historical or geographical writing about colonization or population movements.

Related words include osada (settlement) and osiedlenie (settlement or establishment). Because osadzonych can have different meanings, it is important to consider surrounding words to determine whether the text refers to detained persons or to settlers.