seknout

Czech

Etymology

From sekat +‎ -nout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛknou̯t]
• Hyphenation: sek‧nout

Verb

seknout pf (imperfective sekat)

1. to cut
2. (expressive) to fit

   Tobě to (ale) sekne. ― You look great.

   Moc jí to v těch šatech seklo. ― She looked very fetching in that dress.

3. (expressive, transitive) to filch

   Někde to seknul. ― He filched it somewhere.

Conjugation

Conjugation of seknout

infinitive seknout, seknouti active adjective seknuvší verbal noun — passive adjective — present forms indicative imperative singular plural singular plural 1st person seknu sekneme — sekněme 2nd person sekneš seknete sekni sekněte 3rd person sekne seknou — — The verb seknout 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 sekl sekli seknut seknuti masculine inanimate sekly seknuty feminine sekla seknuta neuter seklo sekla seknuto seknuta transgressives present past masculine singular — seknuv feminine + neuter singular — seknuvši plural — seknuvše

Derived terms

• naseknout
• přeseknout
• rozseknouti
• useknout
• vyseknout

See also

• tnout

Further reading

• “seknouti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “seknouti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “seknout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025