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

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)