Zmizel

Zmizel is the past participle of the Czech verb zmizet, meaning to disappear. It functions as a past-tense form for masculine singular subjects and, when used as an adjective, to describe something that has disappeared. In Czech, zmizet is a perfective verb, so zmizel denotes completed disappearance in the past and agrees with the gender and number of the subject (with feminine, neuter, and plural forms used accordingly).

The word is common in everyday speech as well as reporting and literature. For example: Muž zmizel (The man disappeared). Auto zmizelo z parkoviště (The car disappeared from the parking lot]. The phrase zmizet z očí is a standard expression meaning to disappear from sight. People may also say osoba zmizela, meaning the person disappeared, depending on gender.

Morphology and usage notes: zmizel can appear in predicative clauses, often with auxiliary verbs to indicate perfective aspect, and it serves as a descriptor in noun phrases when used in its adjectival sense. The noun form zmizení exists and means disappearance as a process or event, frequently used in news, investigations, and biographical contexts.

Related terms include the verb zmizet and the noun zmizení. The concept is central to descriptions of vanishing or absence and is widely understood in Czech-language discourse.