jezicima

Jezicima is the plural form of the noun jezik in South Slavic languages such as Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian. It functions as dative plural, instrumental plural, and locative plural, and it refers to languages or tongues in those grammatical cases. In ordinary usage, jezicima appears when language is the indirect object, the means, or the place in which something occurs.

The word jezik is tightly linked to the broader Slavic root for tongue or language and has cognates across related languages, such as Polish język and Russian yazik. The form jezicima specifically marks plural reference in the dative, instrumental, or locative cases. This morphological versatility allows it to fit many grammatical constructions without changing the underlying meaning.

In practice, jezicima is encountered in formal, academic, and descriptive texts. It often appears with prepositions such as u (in) or s (with) to express relations like “in the languages” or “with the languages.” For example, a phrase like u jezicima Evrope means “in the languages of Europe.”

See also: jezik, jezici, lingvistika, slavistika.