osobu

Osobu is the accusative singular form of the noun osoba, meaning a person or individual, used in several languages that have similar word stems. The base form is osoba, with feminine gender, and osobo form appears when the noun functions as the direct object of a sentence or a verb that governs the accusative.

Languages and usage

In Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and Montenegrin, as well as in Czech and Slovak, osobu/osobu functions as the direct object: for example, Vidim osobu (I see a person) or Vidím osobu (I see a person). The exact spelling may vary slightly by language and orthography, but the common pattern is that the accusative singular ends in -u in these forms. In these languages, the nominative singular is osoba, while the accusative singular is osobu in most standard varieties.

Notes

The form differs from related languages such as Polish, where the direct object of osoba is osobę, reflecting different diacritics and phonology. The word osoba generally denotes a human being rather than a concept of personhood, and the plural form in these languages is typically osoby or similar, with its own case endings.

Usage context

Osoba/osoba-derived forms appear frequently in everyday speech, journalism, and formal writing whenever a single person is the object of an action. They are also encountered in legal, medical, and administrative texts where precise grammatical case forms are required for clarity.

See also

Osoba (the base noun meaning person), list of terms for person in Slavic languages, Polish osobę (the equivalent in Polish).