Podmínkám

Podmínka is a feminine Czech noun meaning condition, requirement, or prerequisite, as well as a term or constraint in various contexts. Podmínkám is the dative plural form of podmínka, used when the sentence requires a dative object such as “to/for the conditions.” While podmínka refers to a single condition, podmínkám denotes multiple conditions in the dative case.

In usage, podmínka covers a wide range of meanings from practical prerequisites to contractual terms. In legal and contractual language, podmínky (plural) are often used to indicate the terms or conditions of an agreement, while in everyday speech podmínka can refer to any prerequisite for an action or outcome. The dative plural podmínkám appears in phrases where the speaker notes obligations or adaptations related to those conditions, for example with verbs that take the dative: vyhovět podmínkám (to comply with the conditions), přizpůsobit se podmínkám (to adapt to the conditions).

In logic and mathematics, podmínka also appears in the sense of a condition that determines a statement or a branch of reasoning; in Czech, this is commonly expressed by related terms such as podmíněný výrok (a conditional statement). The form podmínkám is not used in those contexts to denote a single condition, but rather as the grammatical case when describing interactions with multiple conditions.

Overall, podmínkám functions as a grammatical inflection of podmínka used in sentences that require the dative plural, while the base concept remains the general notion of a condition or prerequisite in language and law.