Kombinujeme

Kombinujeme is the present tense, first-person plural form of the Czech verb kombinovat, meaning to combine, join, mix, or pair elements. It is used to describe the act of bringing together two or more components, ideas, or options into a single or more effective whole. The form illustrates how Czech expresses agency and number in everyday action.

Etymology and related terms: The verb kombinovat is a loanword from foreign languages, linked to Latin combinare and related to German kombinieren, entering Czech as part of the expansion of scientific and technical vocabulary in the 19th and 20th centuries. Related nouns and adjectives—kombinace (a combination), kombinovaný (combined)—share the same root and are common in technical and everyday language.

Morphology: Kombinovat belongs to the regular -ovat class of Czech verbs. Its present-tense forms include: já kombinuji, ty kombinuješ, on kombinuje, my kombinujeme, vy kombinujete, oni kombinují. The stem is kombin-, and the endings follow standard patterns for -ovat verbs.

Usage and context: In everyday language, kombinovat covers mixing or pairing things, as well as combining plans, options, or components. Examples: "Kombinujeme různé chutě" (We combine different flavors) and "Kombinujeme dva plány" (We combine two plans). In technical contexts, it can describe combining materials, data, or signals. In mathematics, the related noun kombinace denotes a selection of elements, and kombinatorika is the field that studies counting and arrangement; the mathematical sense is expressed with these nouns rather than the verb.

See also: kombinace, kombinatorika, kombinátor.