Abstract
<jats:p>All nouns with the suffix -ština in the Serbian language were taken as the subject of analysis. The corpus was excerpted from the Obratni rečnik srpskoga jezika by M. Nikolić and it consists of 95 lexemes. Given the low productivity of the suffix -ština in Serbian, it is expected that nouns from the corpus can be used with an alternative suffix. The aim of this research is to see which suffixes can be an alternative to the suffix -ština, as well as to examine the semantic similarity of lexemes with alternative suffixes. The meanings of the examples from the corpus were determined based on the dictionaries of Matica Srpska, and nouns with different suffixes added to the same bases were also found among them. The analysis of the examples shows that the abstract lexicon is dominant, where -stvo and -ost most often appear as alternatives to the suffix -ština. Nouns with an augmentative and pejorative meaning can, in addition to -ština, be built with the suffix -(č)ina, -etina, etc. (rakiština: rakijčina, rakijetina). Research has confirmed that almost every noun ending in -ština can achieve an identical meaning with an alternative suffix. A total of 16 suffixes are added to bases from the corpus as an alternative. However, the suffix -ština often affects the pejorative nuance of the meaning of the example from the corpus.</jats:p>