Sustavom

Sustavom is the instrumental singular form of the masculine noun sustav, meaning system, used in Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian. It denotes a cohesive whole composed of interrelated parts and can refer to biological, technical, social, or organizational arrangements.

Morphology and usage

Sustav belongs to masculine nouns and declines through cases as sustav (nom), sustava (gen), sustavu (dat), sustav (acc), sustavu (loc), with sustavom serving as the instrumental singular form. The instrumental form sustavom is used to express the means or instrument by which an action occurs and can appear with verbs of operation, control, or construction, as well as in phrases describing procedures performed with a system.

Domains and examples

Common domains for sustav include biology (nervni sustav, krvožilni sustav, digestivni sustav), technology and computing (računalni sustav, informacijski sustav), engineering and industry (kontrolni sustav, strojni sustav), and law or public administration (pravni sustav, administrativni sustav). In scholarly writing, sustavom may occur in combination with adjectives to specify the type of system, for example in phrases like sustavom koji integrira... or sustavom sigurnosti.

Relation to English and translation

The word sustav is typically translated into English as "system." The instrumental form sustavom is a grammatical feature of the source languages and does not have a direct equivalent in English morphology; it is used to indicate instrument or means within those languages.