kopnou

Kopnou is a Czech verb form that appears as the third-person plural form of the perfective verb kopnout, meaning "to kick." In Czech, perfective verbs express completed actions and their present tense forms denote a future time; therefore, kopnou translates as "they will kick" rather than "they are kicking" in the present. The form derives from the infinitive kopnout with the suffix -nou marking third-person plural.

In usage, kopnou is used when describing an action by multiple subjects performing a kick in the near future or as a simple future statement. Example: Oni kopnou do míče. "They will kick the ball." Other related forms from the same verb include kopnu (I will kick), kopne (he/she/it will kick), and kopnou, depending on person and number; the imperfective counterpart kopat yields present tense kopou ("they kick" or "they are kicking").

Kopnout belongs to the Czech lexical set around physical actions and is commonly found in news reports, sports commentary, and everyday speech where a future action is described concisely. The word does not typically stand alone as a noun, but as a verb form it functions syntactically as the predicate of a clause with a subject pronoun or noun.

See also: Kopnout, Czech verbs, Czech aspect, Perfective aspect.