ruchów

Ruchów is a Polish noun form used as the genitive plural of ruch, which means movement, motion, or activity. In Polish grammar, ruch is masculine; its nominative plural is ruchy, while the genitive plural is ruchów. Ruchów is therefore encountered when quantity is expressed or in constructions that require the genitive case.

The sense of ruch includes bodily movement, mechanical motion, and broader progress or activity such as traffic or sequence of events. As a genitive plural, ruchów appears after numerals and other determiners that govern the genitive, and in phrases describing types or aspects of movement, such as ruchów drogowych (road traffic) or ruchów obrotowych (rotational motions).

Usage examples include ile ruchów? (how many movements?), wiele ruchów, trzech ruchów, or brak ruchów (no movements). In technical writing, it can be found in biomechanics, physics, and transportation contexts, where precise references to multiple movements or motions are needed.

Etymology: ruchów derives from the Polish noun ruch, from a common Proto-Slavic root related to movement, with cognates in other Slavic languages, such as Russian ruch and Ukrainian ruch. The form and its usage reflect the broader Slavic pattern of noun declension, where genitive plurals are used after numerals and in many descriptive phrases.

Notes: in isolation, ruchów functions primarily as a grammatical inflection rather than a stand-alone semantic unit; its meaning is determined by the surrounding noun or construction.