spravnou

Spravnou is the ASCII rendering of a feminine accusative singular form found in Czech and Slovak adjectives meaning “correct” or “proper.” In standard Czech, the corresponding form with diacritics is správnou, while in Slovak it is správnu. The term itself is not a separate word with its own meaning outside of these declined adjective forms; it is a grammatical ending used to modify feminine nouns in the accusative case.

In usage, spravnou appears when describing a feminine noun in the accusative: for example, in Czech you would say spravnou odpověď (the correct answer) or jít správnou cestou (to go the right way, with the instrumental form spravnou cestou in some constructions). In Slovak, a parallel construction is správnu odpoveď or ísť správnou cestou, reflecting the same meaning and grammatical role. The form changes with case and gender across declensions, so spravnou is specifically the feminine accusative singular form.

The term is often encountered in written text either with proper diacritics (správnou/spravnu) or in plain ASCII as spravnou, particularly in older texts, plain‑text files, or systems that do not support diacritics. It is closely related to the noun správnosť, which denotes correctness or propriety, and to related forms that express rightness in different gender, number, or case.

See also: správnost, správny, správna.