cestami

Cestami is the instrumental plural form of the Czech and Slovak noun cesta, meaning path, way, or journey. As a grammatical form, cestami expresses means or manner, roughly translating to “by paths” or “via routes.” It is used with verbs and in constructions that require the instrumental case.

Etymology: The noun cesta comes from a common Slavic root for “path,” and is cognate across several Slavic languages. Cestami is formed by adding the instrumental plural ending -ami to cesta.

Usage: In standard Czech and Slovak, cestami appears in contexts describing travel or movement along or by routes rather than by a single road. It is more common in literary or descriptive language and less frequent in everyday speech, where alternative phrases such as po cestách or po cestě are often used depending on the grammatical context.

See also: cesta, cesty, Czech grammar, Slovak grammar.