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čítať

to read

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to read

to read
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How to use it

Čítať is reading along the way. Prečítať means reading it through.

In a sentence

čítať — ongoing / imperfective

  • Čítam knihu.

    I'm reading a book.

prečítať — read through (see prečítať)

  • Prečítam knihu.

    I'll read the book through.

Other

  • Prečo potrebuješ čítať takúto knihu?

    Why do you need to read such a book?

    Tatoeba #4642073

  • Tom hovorí, že vie čítať knihu vo francúzštine.

    Tom says that he can read a French book.

    Tatoeba #4792421

Examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).

Source

Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗

English gloss from the frequency publish path. Includes Tatoeba example sentences when present.

Full attribution on References.