imaginárních

Imaginárních is a Czech inflected form of the adjective imaginární, which means imaginary or fictitious. The form imaginárních is used to modify plural nouns in the genitive case, and it indicates that the noun is in a genitive plural construction. In practice, imaginárních appears when an adjective governs a plural noun that is in the genitive, such as after numerals or in noun phrases describing properties or quantities of non-real things.

Etymology and form: imaginární derives from the Latin imaginarius, and through historical development in Czech it took on the standard adjectival endings of Czech. In the genitive plural, adjectives of this type receive the ending -ních, giving imaginárních as the form used before plural nouns in genitive or in contexts requiring genitive agreement.

Usage: Imaginárních commonly occurs in academic, literary, and everyday Czech when referring to non-real or fictional entities in a plural sense. For example, počet imaginárních bytostí means “the number of imaginary beings,” and vlastnosti imaginárních scénářů means “the properties of imaginary scenarios.” The form is a grammatical tool to express possession, quantity, or description of non-real elements within a sentence.

Notes: Because Czech adjectives agree with their nouns in gender, number, and case, the ending -ních signals genitive plural agreement with the corresponding plural noun. The base adjective imaginární can also appear in other cases and numbers with different endings, but imaginárních is specifically the genitive plural form.

See also: imaginární, Czech grammar, genitive plural endings.