Miloval

Miloval is a grammatical form of the verb milovat in Czech and Slovak, meaning “to love.” It specifically represents the masculine singular past tense, used with a masculine subject, and translates to “he loved” in English.

Etymology and morphology: Milovat is the verb “to love.” The form miloval is built from the root mil- with the suffix -oval, a common pattern for past tense forms in these languages. The full paradigm for the past tense includes miloval (masculine singular), milovala (feminine singular), milovalo (neuter singular), milovali (masculine plural), and milovaly (feminine plural).

Usage: Miloval appears in narrative and reported-speech contexts to describe a completed act of loving by a male subject. In Czech and Slovak, past-tense forms agree with the subject’s gender and number. While miloval functions as a finite verb form, it is not a standalone lexeme without context.

Cross-linguistic note: Similar masculine past-tense forms exist in related Slavic languages, such as Polish miłował, reflecting common verbal patterns across the family.

See also: milovat; past tense; Czech grammar; Slovak grammar.