Znamenajúce

Znamenajúce is a present participle used in Slovak (and in a closely related form in Czech) to express denotation or meaning. It functions as an adjective meaning "denoting" or "signifying" and is commonly found in technical writing, definitions, and glossaries to indicate what a term or expression denotes.

In Slovak grammar, znamenajúce is the neuter singular form of the present active participle of the verb znamenovať, and it agrees with the noun it modifies. The masculine and feminine counterparts are znamenajúci and znamenajúca, while plural forms adapt as well. As a modifier, znamenajúce can introduce a specification of meaning, for example in phrases such as "pojem znamenajúce určité významy" or "slová znamenajúce ..." It may appear predicatively in a sentence but is most often used attributively.

In Czech, the parallel form znamenající serves the same function and inflects in a similar way, providing a direct equivalent for denoting or signifying.

Origin and use: znamenajúce is derived from the verb znamenovať, meaning "to denote" or "to signify." It is predominantly a descriptive, technical, or scholarly tool to clarify the sense of terms or concepts without altering the core meaning of the noun it modifies. The form is part of a broader system of participles used to express meaning-related relationships in Slovak and Czech.