Liczbie

Liczbie is the locative singular form of the Polish feminine noun liczba, meaning number. It is not a stand-alone lexical item by itself but a grammatical inflection used in specific syntactic contexts. The form liczbie also coincides with the dative singular, so it can appear in both dative and locative constructions depending on the prepositions and meaning in the sentence.

In practice, liczbie appears with prepositions such as w (in) or o (about) to discuss quantities or counts. Examples include w liczbie stu (in the number of one hundred), w liczbie osób (in the number of people), and o liczbie ofiar (about the number of victims). These phrases express count, magnitude, or statistical detail rather than a standalone noun.

Morphology and usage notes: liczbie is the singular form used for feminine nouns ending in -a. Because it serves as both the dative and locative in many contexts, the same form signals different grammatical cases depending on the preposition and meaning. Learners should rely on surrounding words to determine whether it functions as a dative (to the number) or locative (about/in the number) usage.

Related terms: the base form liczba (number) and its other cases (genitive liczby, nominative liczba, instrumental liczbą, etc.) provide the full declensional paradigm. Liczbie itself is primarily a grammatical tool rather than a separate lexical concept.