dobrat
Czech
Etymology
Prefix do- + verb brát (“to take”), which comes from Proto-Slavic *bъrati, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“carry”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdobrat/
- Hyphenation: dob‧rat
Verb
dobrat pf (imperfective dobírat)
- (transitive) use up
- (transitive) finish taking
- (reflexive, used with se) find out, ascertain
- (reflexive, used with se) arrive
Conjugation
Conjugation
| Present forms | indicative | imperative | ||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| 1st person | doberu | dobereme | — | doberme |
| 2nd person | dobereš | doberete | dober | doberte |
| 3rd person | dobere | doberou | — | — |
| The verb dobrat 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 | dobral | dobrali | dobrán | dobráni |
| masculine inanimate | dobraly | dobrány | ||
| feminine | dobrala | dobraly | dobrána | dobrány |
| neuter | dobralo | dobrala | dobráno | dobrána |
| Transgressives | present | past |
| masculine singular | — | dobrav |
| feminine + neuter singular | — | dobravši |
| plural | — | dobravše |
Antonyms
- (use up, finish taking, arrive): odebrat
Related terms
Terms related with dobrat
- brát
- dobírat
- nabrat
- nabírat
- nábor
- odběr
- odebrat
- obrat
- pobrat
- probrat
- rozebrat
- rozbor
- sběr
- sběrný
- sbírat
- sbor
- sborový
- sebrat
- výběr
- výběrový
- výbor
- vybrat
- záběr
- zabrat
References
- "brát" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, Leda, 2015, →ISBN, page 96.