cestovného

Cestovního is not a standalone noun in Czech. It is the genitive singular form of the adjective cestovní, meaning travel-, travel-related, or tourist. As a grammatical form, cestovního appears whenever the modified noun is in genitive singular, most often in phrases describing possession or attributes of travel-related items or concepts.

Usage and examples

Cestovního is widely used in both everyday and specialized language. Common contexts include tourism, travel services, and travel-related expenses. Examples of phrases where cestovního appears include cesta cestovního pojištění (the price of travel insurance) and statistika cestovního ruchu (statistics of tourism). Other frequent collocations include terms like cenník cestovního ruchu (price list of tourism) or náklady cestovního pojištění (costs of travel insurance), where the adjective partakes in a genitive construction with the noun.

Etymology and relation to cestovní

Cestovního derives from cestovní, itself formed from cesta (path, journey) with the suffix -ovní, and reflects the same semantic field of travel and tourism. The form cestovního serves as the genitive singular, linking the adjective to a following noun in genitive (for example, cestovního ruchu, cestovního pojištění). In contrast, the nominative form cestovní is used before nouns in the base position, e.g., cestovní kancelář (travel agency).

Notes

Because cestovního is a grammatical inflection, it is encountered primarily in phrases where the noun is in genitive. It is not a separate lexical item, but part of the broader set of travel-related expressions in Czech.