postavit

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech postaviti, from Proto-Slavic *postaviti. Compare Serbo-Croatian поставити.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpostavɪt]

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Verb

postavit pf (imperfective stavět)

1. to stand, put
2. to stand up, set upright
3. to build

   Tahle stěna je postavená z bahna. ― This wall here is made of mud.

4. (reflexive with se, intransitive) to stand up
5. (reflexive with se) to defy, oppose
6. to put (a question etc in a specific manner)

   A když to postavil takto, konečně jsem pochopil, jak to myslí. ― And when he put it that way I could finally see what he meant.

Conjugation

Conjugation of postavit

infinitive postavit, postaviti active adjective postavivší verbal noun postavení passive adjective postavený present forms indicative imperative singular plural singular plural 1st person postavím postavíme — postavme 2nd person postavíš postavíte postav postavte 3rd person postaví postaví — — The verb postavit 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 postavil postavili postaven postaveni masculine inanimate postavily postaveny feminine postavila postavena neuter postavilo postavila postaveno postavena transgressives present past masculine singular — postaviv feminine + neuter singular — postavivši plural — postavivše

Related terms

• stát

Further reading

• “postaviti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “postaviti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “postavit”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025