skluzu

Skluzu is a grammatical form of the Czech and Slovak noun skluz, commonly encountered in everyday language and specific registers such as sports and technical discourse. The base noun skluz denotes a slide, slip, glide or a temporal lag; contexts determine whether the meaning is physical (a slipping movement), tactical (a sliding tackle in football), mechanical (a slippage between parts) or temporal (a delay or backlog).

As a case form, skluzu appears in phrases that require the noun in oblique cases (for example in prepositional and possessive constructions). Typical collocations include bez skluzu ("without delay/slide"), mít skluz ("to have a delay, to be behind schedule") and o skluzu ("about the slip/delay"). In sports commentary, skluz often refers to a defensive sliding tackle or a player's intentional slide to intercept the ball. In technical and geological contexts it can describe relative movement along a surface or fault.

Etymologically the word is derived from Slavic roots related to sliding and motion; its derivatives and compounds are used to form verbs, adjectives and idiomatic expressions in both Czech and Slovak. Usage notes emphasize context to distinguish physical sliding from figurative or temporal senses. The form skluzu is part of regular noun inflection patterns in these languages and is commonly encountered in spoken and written registers.