szerokich

Szerokich is a Polish inflected form of the adjective szeroki, meaning wide or broad. It is not a standalone noun, but the genitive plural and locative plural form used to modify a plural noun. In Polish, adjectives change form to agree with the noun they describe, and szerokich corresponds to plural nouns in certain cases, such as after prepositions or in possessive constructions.

The base forms of the adjective are szeroki (masculine singular), szeroka (feminine singular), and szerokie (neuter singular and plural in the nominative). In the genitive plural and locative plural, the ending becomes -ich, yielding szerokich. This form is common when referring to a broad set or group of things, or when specifying a characteristic in phrases that require a plural noun in these cases.

Usage examples include:

- Brak szerokich dróg. (There is a lack of wide roads.)

- W szerokich ulicach miasta można łatwo się poruszać. (In the wide streets of the city one can get around easily.)

- Szerokich możliwości nie wykorzystano fully. (The broad possibilities were not fully utilized; in Polish, the exact case may vary with the surrounding words.)

Etymology traces szeroki to a Proto-Slavic root meaning wide, with cognates in other Slavic languages such as Russian широкий (shirokij). The form szerokich appears in many descriptive or formal contexts, including travel writing, urban planning, and academic prose, whenever a plural noun in genitive or locative case is described as broad or expansive.