Zákonnou

Zákonnou is a Czech grammatical form of the adjective zákonný, meaning legal, statutory, or lawful. It is used to modify feminine nouns and appears in the accusative and instrumental cases of the singular.

Grammatical note: In Czech, adjectives agree with the gender, number, and case of the nouns they describe. For feminine singular, the accusative and instrumental forms end in -ou, producing zákonnou. This form does not stand alone as a noun but functions as an inflected adjective in a phrase.

Common uses: In the accusative, zákonnou modifies a feminine noun to indicate something regulated by law, as in zákonnou lhůtu (statutory deadline) or zákonnou změnu (statutory change). In the instrumental, zákonnou expresses doing something by legal means or in a legal manner, as in řešit zákonnou cestou (to handle the matter by legal means) or postupovat zákonnou formou (to proceed in legal form).

Etymology and scope: The form derives from zákonný, which itself comes from zákon meaning "law" with a derivational suffix. Zákonnou is thus a regular inflected form used in lawful or statutory contexts; it does not denote a separate concept, but rather a grammatical variant of a broader adjective.

See also: zákon, zákonný, zákonnost.