sehnat

Czech

Etymology

From se- +‎ hnát.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛɦnat]

Verb

sehnat pf (imperfective shánět)

1. to find, to get

   sehnat práci ― to get a job

   sehnat byt ― to get an apartment

Conjugation

Conjugation

Infinitive	sehnat, sehnati	Active adjective	seženoucí
Verbal noun	—	Passive adjective	—

Present forms	indicative		imperative
	singular	plural	singular	plural
1st person	seženu	seženeme	—	sežeňme
2nd person	seženeš	seženete	sežeň	sežeňte
3rd person	sežene	seženou	—	—

The verb sehnat does not have present tense and the present forms are used to express future only.

Participles	Past participles		Passive participles
	singular	plural	singular	plural
masculine animate	sehnal	sehnali	sehnán	sehnáni
masculine inanimate		sehnaly		sehnány
feminine	sehnala		sehnána
neuter	sehnalo	sehnala	sehnáno	sehnána

Transgressives	present	past
masculine singular	sežena	—
feminine + neuter singular	seženouc	—
plural	seženouce	—

Derived terms

• shon

 

Further reading

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