tuszami

Tuszami is the instrumental plural form of the Polish noun tusz, meaning ink. In Polish grammar, the instrumental case is used to indicate the instrument or means by which an action is performed, so tuszami translates roughly as “with inks” or “by ink.”

The form is typically used to describe actions carried out with ink, such as writing or drawing. For example, phrases like pisali tuszami (they wrote with ink) or malarz pracował tuszami (the painter worked with inks) illustrate its ordinary, instrument-based usage. Historically, tuszami appears in older manuscripts and literary descriptions when ink and pen were the primary tools for writing and illustration.

In contemporary usage, tuszami is less common in everyday speech, but it remains a valid grammatical form and can appear in literature, historical writing, or stylistic prose to evoke traditional inking methods. The word is closely related to tusz (ink) and is part of standard Polish syntax for expressing means of action involving ink, contrasted with other instruments such as pióro (pen) or długopis (ballpoint pen). See also tusz, atrament, caligrafia.