- jíti, to go
- na|jíti, to find (to come to a thing);
- vy|na|jíti, to invent (to find out a thing).
The purpose of the list of prefixes is to show the student the relationship of the verb family and to enable him to understand better the meaning and use of the composite verbs. By paying attention to the origin and relationship the student will soon acquire feeling for the spirit of the language and will have no difficulty in understanding thousands of new verbs.
TRPNÝ ROD.—THE PASSIVE VOICE.
The Bohemian has a special participle to express the passive voice. Trpné příčestí—passive participle.
This passive participle varies like the past (active) participle according to the gender and number of its subject. It ends in most cases in -n (seldom in -t) for the masculine, in -na (-ta) for the feminine, and -no (-to) in the neuter in the singular number, and in -ni (-ti), for masculine, -ny (-ty) for feminine, -na (-ta) for neuter in the plural number.
All the tenses and moods of the passive voice are compounded from the corresponding form of the auxiliary verb to be, býti, and the passive participle.
Časování slovesa chváliti v trpném rodě. Conjugation of the verb to praise in the passive voice.
Trpný přechodník—Passive participle, chválen, -a, -o; ni, -ny, -a.
Neurčitý způsob, Infinitive, býti chválen, to be praised.