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to read

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?
Tom hovorí, že vie čítať knihu vo francúzštine.
Tom says that he can read a French book.
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.
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