Postrádaná

Postrádaná is a Czech feminine singular form of the adjective or past passive participle derived from the verb postrádat. It denotes that something is missing, lacking, or not present, and it agrees with feminine nouns in the nominative and accusative cases. The masculine and neuter forms are postrádaný and postrádané, respectively.

In usage, postrádaná is common in formal, journalistic, and literary contexts to describe items, information, or persons that have not been located or are absent. It can appear attributively, as in postrádaná položka (a missing item) or postrádaná kniha (the missing book), or predicatively with the verb být, as in a sentence like "Položka je postrádaná" or more naturally as a noun phrase "Postrádaná informace byla doplněna."

Examples:

- Postrádaná kniha leží na stole.

- Postrádaná informace byla doplněna.

- Policii byla sdělena výzva k nalezení postrádané osoby.

Etymology: postrádaná is formed from the verb postrádat with the feminine suffix -ná, yielding the feminine singular form that modifies feminine nouns.

See also:

- postrádat

- nezvěstný

- chybět