podobni

Podobni is an adjective used in several Slavic languages to mean "similar" or "alike." It represents the masculine personal plural form in languages such as Polish, Czech, Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian varieties, used when referring to a group of people or things that resemble others. The form changes with gender, number, and case: for example, Polish uses podobny for masculine singular, podobna for feminine singular, podobne for neuter, and podobni for masculine plural. In Czech and Slovak it appears as podobní, with diacritics, and in Slovene as podobni as well.

Etymology: Podobni derives from Proto-Slavic roots related to the sense of similarity or likeness. It is cognate with related terms across Slavic languages that express resemblance and parallel forms of appearance or behavior.

Usage: Podobni is used predicatively, as in "Ci mężczyźni są podobni" (These men are similar) in Polish, or attributively, as in "podobni do siebie" (similar to each other). The word functions as a standard adjective and agrees with the noun in gender, number, and case. It can form phrases that compare one group to another or describe shared characteristics, contributing to precise descriptive statements in discourse.

See also: podobny, podobieństwo, podobnie.