przebiegami

Przebiegami is the instrumental plural form of the Polish noun przebieg. The root przebieg comes from the word bieg (run, course) with the prefix prze-, and the term generally denotes the course, progression, or distance of something. In Polish grammar, przebieg is masculine inanimate; its standard inflected forms include przebieg (singular nominative), przebiegi (plural nominative), przebiegów (genitive), przebiegom (dative), przebiegami (instrumental), and przebiegach (locative). The instrumental plural form przebiegami is used when the object or aspect is treated as an instrumental element in plural constructions.

Senses and uses

- Mileage or distance traveled by a vehicle: przebieg is commonly used to describe how far a car or other machine has run, e.g., mileage readings.

- Course or progression of events, processes, or developments: przebieg can refer to how events unfold, the sequence of actions, or the overall trajectory of a project or phenomenon.

- In technical, scientific, or formal writing, przebieg and its inflected forms appear in discussions of the progression of experiments, studies, or operational processes.

Register and style

Przebieg and its instrumental plural form are typical in formal, administrative, legal, or technical texts. In everyday speech, speakers more often use the nominative plural przebiegi or alternative phrasing to express the same ideas. The choice of case and number reflects the syntactic role of the term within a sentence.

Etymology

The word derives from bieg (run, course) with the prefix prze-, reflecting meaning related to progression or passage.