projektom

Projektom is the instrumental singular form of the noun projekt, meaning “project,” used in several Slavic languages and in Latin-script renderings of those languages. The form is typically encountered in languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Slovak, where it functions as the instrumental case, often indicating the means, instrument, or topic of action, or serving with certain verbs that require the instrumental.

Etymology traces projekt to the Latin proiectum, via French projet and various intermediate routes into European languages. The modern noun projekt meaning “a plan or proposal to be carried out” entered many languages in the 19th and 20th centuries, often through German or French intermediaries, and was adapted to each language’s inflectional system. The instrumental endings differ by language: for example proyekas in some Slavic variants, projektem in Polish and Czech/Slovak, and projektom in Cyrillic-based forms such as Russian and Ukrainian renderings.

Usage across languages varies with grammatical context. In Russian and Ukrainian, projektom (проектом) is used with verbs that govern the instrumental case, such as заниматься проектом (to work on the project). In Polish, Czech, and Slovak, the corresponding forms are projektem and are used similarly with verbs or prepositions requiring the instrumental. The precise syntactic role of projektom depends on the sentence structure and the governing verb or preposition.

See also: project (disambiguation), etymology of projekt, linguistic inflection in Slavic languages.