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Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
mať
- second-person singular imperative of mást
Slovak
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mati, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.
Noun
mať f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere)
- mother
- Synonyms: matka, mama, mamička, mater
Declension
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьmati.
Verb
mať impf
- to have
- to be supposed to
Conjugation
Conjugation of mať (imperfective; class I, pattern chytať)
Further reading
- “mať”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
- Peciar, Štefan, editor (1960), “mať”, in Slovník slovenského jazyka [Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 2 (L – O), Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo SAV, →OCLC, page 105
- Peciar, Štefan, editor (1959), “jímať”, in Slovník slovenského jazyka [Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1 (A – K), Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo SAV, →OCLC, page 652