Tisuća na tisuću načina
A thousand in a thousand ways

Summary/Abstract: There are many ways to express a cardinal number 1000 in Croatian. Along with a lexical diversity (tisuća, hiljada, som, jezero, miljar, tavžan i sl.) there exists a morphosyntactic one described in this article. The corpus based on the examples picked from Google Search reveals the cardinal number 1000 as a noun, an adjective or an adverb. The noun 1000 can be accompanied either by a counted word in the genitive plural or in the case required. As can be expected, a counted word agrees with the adjectival number 1000. With the adverb 1000 a counted word is usually in the genitive plural. The other possibilities are the case required and the unexpected case.The determinators of the adverbial 1000 appear in different forms: 1) a congruent feminine accusative singular; 2) a petrified neuter accusative singular; 3) the genitive plural and 4) a syntactic case required. The examples from the oldest Croatian texts written in Church Slavonic show the same tendencies in forming the numeral phrases.

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