Zdôraznila

Zdôraznila is the feminine singular past tense form of the Slovak verb zdôrazniť, meaning to emphasize or stress. It indicates that a female subject has completed the act of stressing a point. The verb is perfective; its masculine singular past form is zdôraznil and the neuter form is zdôraznilo. The imperfective counterpart is zdôrazňovať, with present tense forms such as zdôrazňuje and past forms like zdôrazňoval, zdôrazňovala, zdôrazňovalo.

In use, zdôraznila is commonly employed in journalism, academic writing, and everyday speech to report that someone emphasised a particular point. It is typically followed by a clause introduced by že or a direct quote, for example: Zdôraznila, že opatrenia sú dočasné. The form reflects gender agreement with the subject and is one of several gendered past-tense forms in Slovak that convey nuance about who performed the action.

Etymology and related forms: zdôrazniť is built from the noun dôraz (emphasis, stress) with a prefix z- and the -niť suffix, yielding “to emphasise.” Related forms include zdôrazňuje (present tense, third person singular), zdôrazňoval/zdôrazňovala/zdôrazňovalo (imperfective past), and zdôraznenie (emphasis, stressing). Synonyms or near-synonyms include podčiarknuť or podčiarkovať, though these can carry slightly different nuance, such as underlining rather than stressing in a broader sense.