Stronami

Stronami is the instrumental plural form of the Polish noun strona, which can mean either a side of an object or a page of a document. In Polish grammar, instrumental plural is used for nouns when they function as the means, manner, or accompaniment of an action, or when required by certain verbs and prepositions in that case. As a result, stronami appears primarily in contexts that require the instrumental case in plural.

In everyday language, the form stronami is most recognizable in fixed expressions such as obydwoma stronami, meaning on both sides. Beyond such expressions, stronami is encountered less frequently as a standalone lexical item and more as a grammatical ending attached to the stem strona in plural instrumental usage. Because Polish declension involves mood and case rather than independent meanings, the semantic contribution of stronami comes from its role within a sentence rather than from the word itself.

The word strona itself carries several related senses, including page, side, and aspect, and its plural instrumental form stronami thus shares in those broad semantic fields when used in the appropriate grammatical context. When discussing pages in a publication, other cases and phrases are typically more natural, such as na stronach (on the pages) or po stronach (across the pages).

See also: Polish grammar, Polish nouns, Polish cases, instrumental case.