Conjugation › Czech › Brát
Czech · Verb Tables · Beginner
brát means "to take" in Czech. Simplest present: já beru, ty bereš, on / ona / ono bere, my bereme, vy berete, oni berou. Below: all 3 tenses we teach, with examples.
Drop the infinitive ending and add the personal ending for each person. This form covers both habitual actions ('I do') and, for imperfective verbs like dělat, actions happening right now ('I am doing').
| já | beru |
| ty | bereš |
| on / ona / ono | bere |
| my | bereme |
| vy | berete |
| oni | berou |
Formed with the l-participle (agreeing with the subject's gender: -l for masculine, -la for feminine, -lo for neuter, -li/-ly for plural) plus the present tense of být as an auxiliary, except in the 3rd person where the auxiliary is dropped.
| já | vzal/a jsem |
| ty | vzal/a jsi |
| on / ona / ono | vzal/a/o |
| my | vzali jsme |
| vy | vzali jste |
| oni | vzali |
Imperfective verbs like dělat add the conjugated auxiliary budu/budeš/bude... before the infinitive. Many common verbs are perfective instead, and simply use their ordinary present-tense endings with future meaning (e.g. udělám, 'I will do/make', from the perfective udělat).
| já | vezmu |
| ty | vezmeš |
| on / ona / ono | vezme |
| my | vezmeme |
| vy | vezmete |
| oni | vezmou |
| Vezmu si to. | I'll take it. |
| Vzal jsem taxi. | I took a taxi. |
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