vodních

vodných is a grammatical form, not a standalone concept. It is the genitive plural form of the Slovak and Czech adjective vodný, which means water-related or of water. The form is used to modify nouns in the genitive plural, typically to express “of water” or “water-related” in phrases describing resources, bodies of water, or water-related features.

In usage, vodných appears in contexts such as hydrological or geographical descriptions. Examples include vodných zdrojov (water sources), vodných tokov (watercourses), or vodných nádrží (water reservoirs). The same functional form exists in Czech as vodních, serving the equivalent purpose in phrases like vodních zdrojů or vodních toků. The exact noun that follows is usually in genitive plural, matching the genitive form of the adjective.

Etymology traces vodný to Proto-Slavic roots related to water, with vodný meaning “water-related.” The genitive plural ending -ných in Slovak and -ních in Czech reflects standard Slavic adjective inflection patterns for masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns in genitive plural.

Notes on usage: vodných is not a standalone noun. Its role is to qualify nouns that are in genitive plural, producing phrases that denote water-related aspects, resources, or phenomena. When referring to water in other grammatical cases or numbers, other forms of the adjective are used (vodná, vodné, vodní, etc.).

See also: voda (water), vodný/vodná/vodné (adjective forms for water-related), hydrology, geographic terminology.