Osebni

Osebni is a Slovenian adjective meaning personal or relating to a person. It is used to describe attributes, items, or concepts that pertain to an individual rather than to things in general, and it can modify nouns across gender and number in standard Slovene.

Etymology-wise, osebni is derived from the noun oseba, meaning person. The suffix -ni forms adjectives that express a relation to or possession by the noun, yielding meanings such as personal, individual, or private in appropriate contexts.

Common usage covers a range of collocations, including osebni podatki (personal data), osebni prostor (personal space), osebni razvoj (personal development), and osebne lastnosti (personal characteristics). In practice, the term often appears in everyday language as well as in legal and administrative contexts, where it helps distinguish matters relating to individuals from more general or public concerns. In contrast, private or private-law terminology such as zasebno may be used to describe privacy or private property, depending on the context.

In legal and regulatory contexts, osebni podatki are defined as data relating to an identified or identifiable person. The processing of such data is governed by privacy laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Slovenia’s data protection statute, which set requirements for consent, purpose limitation, security, and transparency.

See also: oseba, osebnopisno usage in taxonomy, zasebnost.