priebeh

Priebeh is a noun used in Slovak (and closely in Czech as průběh) to denote the course or progression of something over time. It describes how a process unfolds, develops, or proceeds, including the sequence of events, duration, and often the outcome. The term is used to refer to both natural developments and structured processes.

In everyday and technical language, priebeh appears in many contexts. In medicine, it denotes the course of an illness or treatment (priebeh ochorenia, priebeh liecby). In science and engineering, it can refer to the time course of a phenomenon or signal (časový priebeh signálu). In law, administration, and research, it is used for the course of proceedings and investigations (priebeh konania, priebeh vyšetrovania). In journalism and history, one speaks of the priebeh udalostí—the progression of events. In sports or narrative descriptions, it may describe the priebeh zápasu or priebeh dejín.

Etymologically, priebeh derives from a verb meaning to run or to take place, and its Czech cognate is průběh. The word is masculine in gender and forms part of everyday and specialized vocabulary in Slovak and Czech. While the exact phrasing may vary by domain, the core idea remains: priebeh encodes how something changes over time, providing a way to discuss trends, stages, and results within a temporal sequence.