mýt

See also: myt, MYT, mȝt, and myt.

Czech

Alternative forms

• mejt (informal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech mýti, from Proto-Slavic *myti.

Cognate with Russian мыть (mytʹ), Old Church Slavonic мꙑти (myti), мꙑѭтъ (myjǫtŭ), Belarusian мыць (mycʹ), Ukrainian мити (myty), Bulgarian мия (mija), Serbo-Croatian мити/miti, Slovak umyť, Polish myć, Slovene miti/umiti, Lithuanian maudyti, and Latvian maut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmiːt]

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• Hyphenation: mýt
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophone: mít

Verb

mýt impf (perfective umýt)

1. to wash

   Jak často si myješ vlasy? ― How often do you wash your hair?

Conjugation

Conjugation

Infinitive	mýt, mýti	Active adjective	myjící
Verbal noun	—	Passive adjective	—

Present forms	indicative		imperative
	singular	plural	singular	plural
1st person	myji, myju (coll.)	myjeme	—	myjme
2nd person	myješ	myjete	myj	myjte
3rd person	myje	myjí, myjou (coll.)	—	—

The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive mýt.

Participles	Past participles		Passive participles
	singular	plural	singular	plural
masculine animate	myl	myli	myt	myti
masculine inanimate		myly		myty
feminine	myla		myta
neuter	mylo	myla	myto	myta

Transgressives	present	past
masculine singular	myje	—
feminine + neuter singular	myjíc	—
plural	myjíce	—

Derived terms

adjectives

• mycí
• mytý

 

nouns

• myčka
• mytí
• mýdlo

 

verbs

• domýt
• omýt
• promýt
• smýt
• umýt
• vymýt

 

See also

• prát

Further reading

• “mýti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mýti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mýt”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)