okolím

okolím is the instrumental singular form of the Czech noun okolí, which means the surroundings, vicinity, or area around a place. The noun okolí denotes the environment that lies near or around something, including geographic, social, or natural aspects of a given locale. It is a neuter noun of Slavic origin; the instrumental singular form is okolím, used in constructions that express relation to the surrounding area in a meaning related to instrument, manner, or involvement. The basic forms in other cases are formed as for other neuter -í nouns, with okolí serving as the nominative, locative, and genitive forms in many contexts; the plural is typically used as okolí as well.

In usage, okolím is most commonly found in formal or descriptive prose, while more everyday references to the vicinity often employ the prepositional phrases v okolí or v blízkém okolí, meaning “in the surroundings” or “in the vicinity.” For example, discussions of a city’s spatial context might speak of changes in the okolí, or statements about activities in the okolí a site. The instrumental form okolím appears in contexts where the surrounding area is conceived as the means or field related to an action.

The term is primarily lexical within Czech grammar and vocabulary, and it is closely related to the base noun okolí. See also okolí (the noun itself), v okolí, po okolí, and related phrases describing surrounding environments.