zápasu

Zápas is a Czech noun meaning a match, game, or contest, typically in sports or competitive activities. The form zápasu is most often encountered as the genitive singular, where it is used to express a relationship to the match, such as possession, origin, or description. For example, výsledek zápasu means the result of the match.

Morphology and declension: Zápas is masculine inanimate. In the singular, the forms are: nominative zápas, genitive zápasu, dative zápasu, accusative zápas. In the plural, the nominative is zápasy, the genitive zápasů, the dative zápasům, and the accusative zápasy. Because it is inanimate, the singular accusative mirrors the nominative.

Etymology and related terms: The word stems from the verb zápasit, meaning to wrestle or to fight, and it is related to concepts of competition and contest. The noun is closely tied to sports terminology in Czech and appears in phrases describing events, results, and progress of contests.

Usage and context: Zápasu commonly appears in sports journalism, statistics, and everyday language to refer to a particular contest or the concept of a match. It appears in fixed expressions such as po zápasu (after the match), během zápasu (during the match), průběh zápasu (the course of the match), and výsledky zápasu (the results of the match). The term is versatile across sports and competitive events.

See also: Zápas (the base noun), zápasit (to fight or compete). In Slovak, the equivalent word is zápas with the same meaning and similar usage.