Mnostvích

Mnostvích is a Czech linguistic term referring to the locative plural form of the noun mnoství, which denotes a large number or a crowd. The word is most often found in formal, literary, or historical contexts rather than in everyday speech.

Meaning and usage: Mnoství emphasizes a collective mass or multitude rather than a precise tally. It can describe groups of people, objects, or abstract quantities and is typically used after locative-case prepositions that govern the form, such as after the prepositions used to express location or context.

Grammatical notes: Mnoství is the base noun, while mnostvích is its locative plural form. Other cases of the noun follow standard Czech inflection but the locative plural consistently bears the ending -ích. The form is more common in older or more elevated prose and is less frequent in contemporary colloquial language.

Relation to related terms: The noun mnoství is related to other quantity words in Czech, such as množství, which broadly denotes quantity or amount. Mnoství, by contrast, often carries nuances of crowd, breadth, or abundance, sometimes with connotations of social or spatial aggregation rather than mere numeration.

Usage context and register: Because mnoství often appears in literary, historical, or descriptive texts, mnostvích appears primarily in written Czech rather than in everyday conversation. It is chosen when the writer aims to evoke a sense of multitude in a locational or contextual sense.

See also: mnoství; množství; mnóství.