kognitivnu

Kognitivnu is a declined form of the adjective kognitivan/kognitivna/kognitivno used in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian. It functions as the accusative singular feminine form, typically appearing before feminine nouns in contexts related to cognition. The base word kognitiv- denotes things connected to cognition, mental processes such as perception, memory, learning, and reasoning.

Etymology and usage

The root kognitiv- comes from the international scientific vocabulary for cognition, itself derived from Latin cognitivus, through modern European languages. In everyday and technical writing, kognitivnu appears in phrases describing cognitive functions or abilities with feminine nouns, for example, kognitivnu funkciju (the cognitive function) or kognitivnu obradu informacija (the cognitive processing of information). The corresponding nominative forms are kognitivna funkcija (feminine) and kognitivno as the neuter form used with neuter nouns.

Scope

Kognitivnu is commonly found in psychology, education, neuroscience, linguistics, and related fields when specifying cognition-related attributes or processes in the accusative feminine form. It coexists with other gendered forms of the same root (kognitivan for masculine, kognitivna for feminine nominative, kognitivno for neuter) to agree with the noun it modifies.

Notes

Kognitivnu is not a separate lexeme with independent meaning outside its grammatical role; it is a grammatical form used to express a cognitive characteristic of a feminine noun in the accusative case. In English-language contexts, the equivalent adjective is cognitive, while in the South Slavic languages it appears in declined forms like kognitivnu to fit sentence structure. See also cognition and cognitive science for related concepts.