čítať

See also: citat, citát, citât, and čítat

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čitati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *(s)keit-, *(s)kait- (compare Lithuanian skaitýti), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeyt-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃiːtac]
  • Hyphenation: čí‧tať

Verb

čítať impf (perfective prečítať or vyčítať (“to tell fortune”) or sčítať (“to count”))

  1. (ambitransitive) to read (to look at and interpret something that is written)
    Čítať novinyto read the newspaper
  2. (ambitransitive) to read (to perceive by touch the meaning of the characters of a dot font)
  3. (transitive) to read (to ascertain from a person's external expressions) [with accusative, along with dative, along with z (+ genitive) or v (+ locative) or na (+ locative)]
    Synonyms: poznávať, domýšľať
    Čítať niekomu z tváreto read someone's face
  4. (transitive) to interpret, to construe, to read (to perceive and interpret something in some way)
    Synonyms: interpretovať, vykladať, vysvetľovať
    Čítať maputo read the map
  5. (transitive) to read, to interpret (of a machine: capture various impulses, signs, codes, etc., analyse and process them)
    Čítať informácie z pamäte počítačato read the information from the computer's memory
  6. (transitive) to tell fortune, to predict (the guess the fates of life according to certain signs) [with z (+ genitive) ‘from what’]
    Synonyms: predpovedať, veštiť
  7. (transitive, colloquial) to count, to calculate
    Synonyms: počítať, rátať

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • čítať”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025