zdolnych

Zdolnych is a Polish inflected form of the adjective zdolny, meaning capable, skilled, or talented. It is not a standalone noun but a grammatical form used to describe multiple nouns when the sentence requires the genitive plural or the masculine personal accusative plural.

In Polish, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case. The form zdolnych is the genitive plural form of zdolny and also the accusative plural form for masculine personal nouns. This means the same spelling appears in two distinct syntactic roles: after prepositions that require the genitive (for example, dla zdolnych ludzi) and as the direct object of a sentence when referring to a group of capable people (for example, Widzę zdolnych nauczycieli).

Usage and examples:

- dla zdolnych studentów (for capable students) – genitive plural after the preposition dla.

- widzę zdolnych nauczycieli (I see capable teachers) – masculine personal accusative plural.

- Potrzebujemy zdolnych programistów (We need capable programmers) – genitive plural after a verb that governs the object in genitive.

Related terms include the base adjective zdolny and the noun zdolność, meaning ability. The form zdolnych is common in education, recruitment, and evaluative language, where it characterizes groups by their capabilities.