includovat

Includovat is a verb used in Czech and Slovak, primarily in information technology and software development, meaning to include or to incorporate an item into a larger collection, list, document, or configuration. The term is a loanword from English include, adapted to local verb formation by adding the productive suffix -ovat in Czech (and -ovať in Slovak).

Etymology and usage are centered in technical contexts. In IT writing, includovat appears in documentation, code comments, and configuration instructions to express the action of adding an element to a group or set. It is most common in informal or domain-specific registers and is often encountered alongside native verbs such as zahrnout (Czech) or zahrnúť (Slovak), or začleniť when a more formal alternative is preferred. Because its status is mostly as jargon or a neologism, includovat is not universally listed in formal dictionaries.

Grammar and forms typically follow the patterns of other -ovat verbs in Czech and Slovak, with inflection adapting to person, tense, and aspect as with similar loanwords. Its usage tends to be explicit in contexts that involve lists, modules, files, or components.

Examples of usage (illustrative, in context):

- Czech: Je třeba includovat tuto položku do seznamu.

- Slovak: Treba includovať túto položku do zoznamu.

See also: include (the English source word), zahrnout / zahrnúť (to include in the native vocabulary), začleniť (to integrate), and references to loanwords in Czech and Slovak IT vocabulary.