osobnej

Osobnej is a form of the Slovak adjective osobný, meaning personal or private. It represents the feminine singular inflection used in certain cases, illustrating how Slovak adjectives agree with the noun they modify by gender, number and case. In this context, osobnej is the genitive singular feminine form and can also appear in the dative singular feminine in standard usage. The corresponding instrumental singular feminine form is osobnou.

Because it is an inflected form rather than a separate lexical item, osobnej only occurs before feminine nouns that are in the genitive or dative case. For example, bez osobnej zodpovednosti means “without personal responsibility,” where zodpovednosti is the feminine noun in the genitive, and osobnej supplies the necessary agreement. Another example is osobnej skúsenosti, meaning “personal experience,” again in the genitive singular feminine.

Usage notes: osobnej is primarily a Slovak grammar form and is not used as an independent word outside of its role as an inflected adjective. In Czech, the corresponding adjective form is typically osobní, reflecting a separate set of declension patterns. In Slovak, the full paradigm includes forms like osobná (nominative feminine), osobnou (instrumental feminine), and osobný (masculine nominative), with osobnej occupying the genitive/dative feminine slot.

See also: Osobný (the base adjective), Slovak declension patterns, comparison with Czech osovnì/osobní forms.