následovala

Následovala is a form of the Czech verb následovat, used as the past tense, feminine singular. It roughly means “she followed” or “it (feminine) followed” and agrees with a feminine subject in the past. The masculine past form is následoval, and the neuter form is následovalo.

In usage, následovat describes something that occurs after another event or comes in sequence. It is common in narrative and descriptive prose to express chronology: for example, Po schválení zákona následovala kritika (After the law was approved, criticism followed). The sense can range from literal following in time to more figurative succession, such as consequences that ensue after an action.

Passive construction note: to express “was followed” in a passive sense, Czech uses a passive form with být, for example byla následována or bylo následováno, depending on grammatical gender and number of the subject.

Etymology and related forms: the verb is derived from nášled, the stem related to consequence or following, with the suffix -ovat. Related nouns include následník (successor), následování (following, pursuit or imitation, depending on context), and následování (the act of following in sequence). The concept also appears in terms like následovat krok za krokem (to follow step by step) and in discussions of succession and sequence in both everyday and technical language.