This is the 10445th most frequent Polish word.
czternastu
"Czternastu" means "fourteen" in Polish, referring to fourteen people or things in a masculine personal context.
The word 'czternastu' is used as a numerical quantifier in its masculine personal form to indicate the quantity of players (14).
W drużynie siatkówki grało czternastu zawodników.
In the volleyball team, there were fourteen players.
Here, 'czternastu' serves as a pronoun denoting the number of students involved (14), applicable to masculine personal nouns.
Czternastu uczniów uczestniczyło w wycieczce szkolnej.
Fourteen students participated in the school trip.
In this case, 'czternastu' appears in a temporal context referring to a timespan (14 years), illustrating its flexibility as an adjective in time expressions.