sociálnymi

Sociálnymi is the instrumental plural form of the Slovak adjective sociálny, meaning "social." It is used to describe nouns in the instrumental case in plural, a common mood for indicating means, manner, or the context in which something is carried out. In Slovak, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case, and the instrumental plural ending for many adjectives is -ými, producing forms like sociálnymi.

The form appears in phrases where the noun is in instrumental plural. Examples include so sociálnymi službami (with social services), so sociálnymi sieťami (with social networks), or so sociálnymi právami (with social rights). The exact meaning depends on the noun it modifies and the syntactic role of the phrase, but sociálnymi always functions as an agreement-based descriptor in the instrumental plural.

Etymology traces sociálny to the Latin socialis, through the common Slavic and European borrowing pathways that yielded the modern Slovak adjective meaning “social.” The related Czech form is sociálními, showing a parallel development in the West Slavic languages. In usage, sociálnymi does not stand alone as a lexical item but operates as a grammatical inflection of sociálny to fit sentence structure.

See also: sociálny (the base adjective), sociálna politika (social policy), sociálne služby (social services), sociálne siete (social networks), and related terms in Slovak and Czech.