stejného

Stejného is a grammatical form in Czech and functions as the genitive singular masculine and neuter form of the adjective stejny, which means "the same" or "identical." It also serves as the accusative singular masculine animate form of stejny. The word therefore appears in contexts where the noun it modifies is in genitive or in the accusative case for masculine animate nouns.

In practice, stejného is used with masculine animate nouns in genitive singular, and with neuter nouns in genitive singular. It also appears for masculine animate nouns in the accusative singular. For example: stejného muže means “of the same man” (genitive) or, in the accusative, viděl jsem stejného muže meaning “I saw the same man.” Another example with a neuter noun is auta: barva stejného auta meaning “the color of the same car.”

The form is not a standalone word with a separate meaning; it is a specific inflected form of the adjective stejny that marks gender and case. Its use signals that the referenced noun shares the same property (such as identity or sameness) with another noun in the discourse.

Related forms of the adjective include feminine and plural endings, which differ by case and number. The basic lemma is stejny, and stejného is one of its common inflections in standard Czech grammar.

See also: stejny (the base adjective), Czech adjective declension, nominative and genitive case usage in Czech.