potoczni

Potoczni is the masculine personal plural form of the Polish adjective potoczny, meaning colloquial or vernacular. It is used to describe nouns in everyday speech or informal usage. As a grammatical form, potoczni functions within sentences to indicate that the modified noun relates to colloquial style, rather than serving as a standard independent label.

In Polish grammar, potoczni is the nominative masculine personal plural form. The corresponding feminine plural and neuter plural forms are potoczne, while other cases follow the standard adjective declension (for example, potoczni rozmówcy, potoczne mowa, potoczna mowa). The adjective agrees with the noun in gender, number, and case.

Semantically, potoczni expresses a register or variety tied to everyday speech. It often occurs in contexts contrasting formal and informal language abilities or practices. The more common way to refer to colloquial speech is via noun phrases such as język potoczny (colloquial language) or mowa potoczna (colloquial speech). Potoczni is therefore primarily a grammatical form used to modify nouns describing people or things in a colloquial sense, rather than a standalone, widely used label.

See also: potoczny, język potoczny, mowa potoczna, potocznie.