údajov

údajov is the genitive plural form of the Slovak noun údad? no, the correct form is údaj. The word údaj means a single datum or piece of information. In its genitive plural úda jov (údajov) it is used in constructions that require the genitive case, typically to express "of data" or to indicate association with a quantity, value or process.

In Slovak, there is also the plural nominative form údaje, which is commonly used to mean data or information as a collective whole. The distinction between údaje (nominative plural) and údajov (genitive plural) depends on grammar and the surrounding word. For example, počet údajov means the number of data items, while spracovanie údajov means the processing of data. Personal data is expressed as osobné údaje, and data protection as ochrana údajov, both using the genitive plural form.

The term appears widely in technical, administrative and legal contexts. It is used in phrases describing data collection, storage, processing and privacy, such as zber údajov (data collection), spracovanie osobných údajov (processing of personal data) and prístup k údajom (access to data). In everyday language, údaje is common when referring to general information, while údajov is the form required by syntactic construction and standard phrases that govern the genitive case.

See also: údaje, dáta, osobné údaje.