stranicama

Stranicama is the dative plural and locative plural form of the Croatian noun stranica, meaning page. Stranica refers to a single page in a book or document, or a single webpage within a website. The term is used across Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian with similar meanings. The nominative plural is stranice; stranicama is used in cases that require the dative or locative plural, typically after prepositions such as na (on) or u (in).

In practice, stranicama appears in phrases that indicate location or direction with pages, for example: "Na stranicama ovog udžbenika nalaze se vježbe" (On the pages of this textbook there are exercises). "U stranicama knjige nalaze se bilješke" (In the pages of the book there are notes). These forms are common in academic, editorial, and literary contexts.

Web terminology distinguishes between stranica as a page and web stranica as a website. A single page of a site is a stranica, while a whole site consists of many web stranice (pages). When referring to pages within a site in a sentence using cases like dative or locative, stranicama may appear in the same way as with printed pages, though such usage is less frequent in everyday web talk than the standard term web stranica and its plural.

Etymology: stranica derives from the Slavic root related to sides or surfaces and has become the conventional word for a page in books and documents. The plural form stranicama follows standard Croatian noun declension patterns.

See also: stranica, web stranica, stranice.