wydanych

Wydanych is a form of the Polish verb wydać and functions as a past passive participle that has acquired adjectival use. It denotes something that has been issued, published, or released. The form wydanych is not a standalone noun; it is a declined participle that agrees with the noun it modifies in number, gender, and case.

Morphology and usage. Wydanych is used in the genitive plural and in the accusative plural masculine personal form of wydany, the masculine singular form. As a result, wydanych appears most often with masculine personal or mixed nouns in the genitive plural, and with any gender nouns in the accusative plural. This makes it common in formal, bibliographic, or statistical contexts, where one discusses quantities of published materials, documents, or editions.

Examples. Liczba wydanych egzemplarzy wyniosła 12 000. In a catalog or report: zestawienie obejmuje liczbę wydanych książek. These phrases illustrate how wydanych modifies plural nouns such as egzemplarzy (copies) or książek (books) to express “the number of published ….”

Etymology and related forms. The form wydanych derives from the verb wydać (to issue/publish) with the suffixes used for past passive participles. The related forms include wydany (masc. sing. nom.), wydana (fem. sing.), wydane (neut. sing. or plural), and other declined shapes corresponding to the noun they accompany.

See also. wydać, wydany, wydane (past participle forms)

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