redovitim

Redovitim is a grammatical form found in several South Slavic languages, functioning as an instrumental singular of the adjective redovit. The adjective redovit means regular, routine, or habitual. As a form, redovitim is used to modify a noun in the instrumental case to indicate that an action or characteristic occurs in a regular or customary way.

In usage, redovitim appears in literary or formal contexts and in fixed expressions. For example, phrases such as redovitim ritmom can be translated as “with a regular rhythm,” and redovitim radom as “with regular work.” In everyday speech, speakers often prefer the adverb redovito to express regularity more directly, while redovitim appears when a more explicit grammatical agreement is desired or when the expression is part of a longer syntactic construction.

Etymology and form: redovitim derives from the adjective redovit, itself linked to the notion of order or regularity. The instrumental singular ending -im marks the masculine form in the instrumental case, which governs phrases describing manner, method, or cause.

Variations: adjectives based on redovit have other gender and case forms (for example, redovita, redovito in nominative or other cases). The instrumental form described here specifically corresponds to masculine singular usage. The word redovito is also used as an adverb meaning “regularly,” which is common in contemporary speech.

See also: redovit (the base adjective), redovito (adverb meaning regularly), and other inflected forms of redovit in the relevant languages.