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From oni + -k- + -at. Cognates include Slovak onikať and Slovene onikati. Compare German siezen.
onikat impf
- to address somebody by using the third person plural, rather than the second person singular
- This form of addressing people is now archaic in Czech, but it is still used in German (see Sie).
Conjugation
The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive onikat. |
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- “onikati”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “onikati”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “onikat”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)