neúmyslný

Neúmyslné is a Czech adjective meaning not intentional or unintentional. It describes actions, outcomes, or statements that were not intended by the subject and distinguishes them from those made or caused on purpose (úmyslné). In everyday use it signals that harm, error, or a result occurred without deliberate aim, planning, or intention.

In formal contexts, neúmyslné is commonly used in legal, ethical, and academic language. In law, it is applied to categorize acts that lack mens rea (a guilty mind) or to describe negligence or inadvertent conduct. Depending on the jurisdiction, unintentional acts may carry different consequences from intentional ones, and phrases such as neúmyslné poškození (unintentional damage) or neúmyslné porušení právní povinnosti (unintentional breach of a duty) are typical. In civil cases, compensation or liability can differ when the conduct is considered neúmyslné rather than úmyslné.

The form neúmyslné agrees with the noun it modifies: masculine singular is neúmyslný, feminine singular neúmyslná, neuter singular neúmyslné; plural forms vary with gender and number. Etymologically, it is formed by the prefix ne- attached to úmysl (intention) and the adjective ending -ný/ná/né, yielding a term used across linguistic, legal, and everyday language to denote lack of intention.