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Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
zdát impf
- (reflexive with se) to seem
- Na první pohled se to nezdálo jako složité zadání. ― At first glance, this did not seem like a complicated task.
- Od té chvíle se mu všechno dobré zdálo hloupé. ― Since then everything good seemed stupid for him.
- (reflexive with se) to have a dream, with object and subject reversed
- Zdál se mi sen. ― I had a dream.
Conjugation
Conjugation
| Infinitive
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zdát, zdáti
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Active adjective
|
zdající
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| Verbal noun
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zdání
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Passive adjective
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—
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| The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive zdát. |
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| Participles |
Past participles |
Passive participles
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singular |
plural |
singular |
plural
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| masculine animate
|
zdal |
zdali |
— |
—
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| masculine inanimate
|
zdaly |
—
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| feminine
|
zdala |
—
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| neuter
|
zdalo |
zdala |
— |
—
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| Transgressives
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present
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past
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| masculine singular
|
zdaje |
—
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| feminine + neuter singular
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zdajíc |
—
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| plural
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zdajíce |
—
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “zdáti se”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “zdáti se”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “zdát”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025