pijímána

Pijímána is a feminine past passive participle form of the Czech verb pijímat, meaning to receive or to take in. In standard modern Czech the more common modern form of the related passive participle is přijímaná; pijímána appears primarily as an older, archaised, or dialectal variant and is mainly found in linguistic or historical texts rather than contemporary prose.

As a participle, pijímána functions as an adjective and agrees with the gender and number of the noun it describes. It can be used predicatively or attributively to indicate that something is being received, accepted, or taken in by someone. Because it is less common in everyday language, its appearance is often associated with stylistic choices, ceremonial or formal contexts, or historical documents.

Etymologically, pijímána derives from the verb pijímat, which shares roots with the more widely used přijímat. The distinction between the two forms reflects older or regional spellings and phonetic developments in Czech. In modern Czech, speakers typically prefer the standard form přijímaná (and related forms like přijímána in the feminine), while pijímána may appear in quotations of older texts or in dialectal writing.

In usage, the term may appear in discussions of Czech grammar, philology, or textual criticism when illustrating how participles were formed or how spelling variants survived in different literary periods. For practical purposes, when translating or composing contemporary Czech, the standard přijímaná is preferred.

See also: pijímat, přijímat, past passive participles in Czech.