skupin

Skupin is the genitive plural form of the Polish noun skupina, which means a group, cluster, or collection of people or things. In Polish, skupina is a feminine noun, and skupin is used in constructions that require the genitive plural, such as when expressing quantities or relationships involving multiple groups.

Etymology and related forms: skupina derives from the root skup- meaning to gather or assemble, with related terms including skupina (the group) and skupinowy (group-related). The nominative plural of skupina is skupiny, while the genitive plural is skupin. Other cases and numbers produce different inflected forms, as is typical for Polish feminine nouns ending in -a.

Usage: In standard Polish, skupin functions solely as a grammatical inflection and not as an independent lexical item in English. It appears in sentences describing multiple groups in contexts such as statistics, sociology, or logistics, where the genitive plural is required. For example, it may occur in phrases like liczba skupin (the number of groups) or inne odniesienia do grup, depending on the syntactic construction.

Notes: Because skupin is a grammatical form, it is often encountered in linguistic discussion or in translations from Polish. It is not a separate concept, organization, or place name in its own right. When discussing the concept of a group in Polish, the base word skupina is used, with inflected forms including skupin for genitive plural. See also: skupina.