postrádala

Postrádala is a Czech verb form, the feminine singular past tense of postrádat. The verb postrádat itself means to miss someone emotionally or to lack something. It can describe both a feeling of longing and a lack or absence of material or immaterial things.

As an imperfective verb, postrádat describes ongoing or repeated past situations rather than a single completed action. In narrative prose it can express that someone was missing a person, object, or quality over a period, or that a certain resource was lacking during a past time.

Grammatical forms related to postráda are used to reflect the subject's gender and number. Masculine singular is postrádal, feminine singular is postrádala, neuter singular is postrádalo. Plural forms include postrádali for masculine or mixed groups, and postrádaly for feminine or feminine-memin groups. These forms appear in past-tense statements describing absence or longing.

Examples include: “Postrádala ho” (She missed him), “Postrádala svého otce” (She missed her father), and “Postrádala peníze” (She lacked money). The choice of form depends on the subject of the sentence and the nuance between missing someone emotionally and lacking something material or abstract.

See also: chybět, postrádat synonyms in Czech; related verb forms in past tense for other genders and numbers.