Personal Names: Czech Personal Names

Male names
Adjectives - Novotn

Nouns - Roubínek
Nouns in -a or -o - Svoboda

Female names
are always adjectival.
If the man's surname is an adjective, the feminine of the adjective is used: Novotná.
If the man's name is a noun, the ending -ová is added: Roubínková.

When two persons of the same name are mentioned, plural forms are used.

If one or both is male:

Novotn	Novotni
apek	apkové, apk, etc.
Svoboda	Svobodové, Svobod, etc.

If both are female:
adjectival forms can be used, e.g. Novotní, Capkové, Svobodové
or the Genitive plural of the masculine name,

apk

. Other adjectival forms refer to families of married couples, e.g.

apkovi.

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