konstitucí

Konstitucí is a grammatical form in Czech. It is the instrumental singular of the feminine noun konstituce, which means constitution. In Czech, konstituce is a formal or scholarly term for the fundamental law of a state or organization, while ústava is the more common everyday word for a country’s constitution.

The instrumental singular konstitucí appears in sentences where the noun denotes the means or instrument of an action, or appears in certain syntactic constructions that require the instrumental case. For example, it can occur in phrases like s konstitucí, or in clause structures where the noun is modified by a participial or relative construction. The form reflects standard Czech grammar for feminine nouns ending in -ce.

Etymology and usage contexts: konstituce comes from the Latin constitutio through European languages, and was adopted into Czech in the modern era. In Czech discourse, konstitucí is most often found in legal history, political science, and formal writing when referring to a particular constitution or to constitutional documents in a precise, technical sense. The everyday term for a state’s fundamental law remains ústava or ústavní zákon, with konstituce appearing in more specialized or historical contexts.

Related terms include konstituční, meaning constitutional, and neústavní, meaning unconstitutional. While konstituce designates the concept of a constitution, konstitucí functions purely as a grammatical form used in specific constructions, not as a separate lexical meaning.