čítať
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Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čitati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *(s)keit-, *(s)kait- (compare Lithuanian skaitýti), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeyt-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]čítať impf (perfective prečítať or vyčítať (“to tell fortune”) or sčítať (“to count”))
- (transitive, intransitive) to read (to look at and interpret something that is written)
- Čítať noviny ― to read the newspaper
- (transitive, intransitive) to read (to perceive by touch the meaning of the characters of a dot font)
- (transitive) to read (to ascertain from a person's external expressions) [with accusative, along with dative, along with z (+ genitive) or v (+ locative) or na (+ locative)]
- (transitive) to interpret, to construe, to read (to perceive and interpret something in some way)
- Synonyms: interpretovať, vykladať, vysvetľovať
- Čítať mapu ― to read the map
- (transitive) to read, to interpret (of a machine: capture various impulses, signs, codes, etc., analyse and process them)
- Čítať informácie z pamäte počítača ― to read the information from the computer's memory
- (transitive) to tell fortune, to predict (the guess the fates of life according to certain signs) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’]
- Synonyms: predpovedať, veštiť
- (transitive, colloquial) to count, to calculate
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of čítať (imperfective; class I, pattern chytať)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “čítať”, 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
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- Slovak terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
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- Slovak terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Slovak terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak verbs
- Slovak imperfective verbs
- Slovak transitive verbs
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