Learn Czech - Imperfective vs Perfective Verbs - Lesson 48

[@cartpaul7788]

Děkuji Richard! To bylo super! Ne mluví česky ale učíme se! I'm a Brazilian guy living in zlin and your videos are helping me a great deal! Thank you very much!!!!!

[@LearnCzechwithRich]

I am really glad the videos are useful for you :)

[@SimsHacks]

Nice explaining :-) and: KONEČNĚ NOVÁ LEKCE !!! :D Even if I am Czech and I can speak Czech I like watching your videos :-)

[@mariettefourie2513]

This helped so much, you have no idea. And it is true, the theory I understand and it is not that complicated, the difficult part is putting it in practice.

[@Gutoknust]

Wow, Rich... really... I've been struggling to learn Czech on my own and your explanation is so clear. I wonder why on Earth most places simply do not state things so straightforwardly! Thank you soooo very much!

[@bojanbojic9230]

I understand this lesson very easily. In my Serbian language we have the same thing - pisati and NApisati. Čeština mi se moc líbí.

[@Sonophilia]

Rich, do you have some exercises?

[@RSfailblog]

thanks for the lesson.

[@muratsssu]

Thanks for Help Rich ..

[@thire5]

Great lesson!! explains a lot, thanks :)

[@LearnCzechwithRich]

+thire5 thanks very much, you are kind

[@mondrian_]

Ahoj Richie, really happy to see another lesson from you :-) One question: the prefix that makes the word perfective isn´t always "na", is it?

[@SimsHacks]

No it isn't :) there are looots of prefixes, for example "uvařit"

[@mondrian_]

+Michal Döme Děkuju :-)

[@LearnCzechwithRich]

+Michal Döme yes there are lots of prefixes. Plus perfective is not always made using prefixes. Which makes it even trickier

[@SimsHacks]

Learn Czech with Rich Yeah, but for Czechs (me) not :D

[@revolution7058]

Dekuju moc sir

[@Gutoknust]

Rich, I was wondering and it would be great if you could confirm or explain it, but is the imperative, then, only made with perfective verbs?

[@jaroslavlosos5498]

No, it can be formed with both. Best shown on examples: "Napiš dopis." (Write a letter.) - perfective, meaning "start writing and finish writing, i.e. don't stop until it's done. But on the other hand: "Piš pomalu." (Write slowly.) - imperfective, because there's nothing to complete here. It means (always) write this way. (A more reasonable example would be: "Piš čitelně." (Write legibly.) or "Mluv pomalu." (Speak slowly.)) To say "Open the window" you would normally use the perfective: "Otevři okno." But consider these situations: "Otevři to okno, ale opatrně!" (Open the window, but carefully.) - perfective, because we're referring to a single action, whereas "Otevírej to okno opatrně!" - imperfective, as in "Every time you open this window, do it carefully!" On the other hand, the negative imperative is always imperfective (except some special situations), e.g. "Nezavírej dveře.", "Nepiš (žádný) dopis.", "Nemluv se mnou." Is it clearer now? :)

[@1rsalc]

Nice explanation. However, I am confused when I read a story for beginners and it mixes imperfective and perfective verbs. Here's an example: Vstávám v šest každé ráno (impfc, repeated action). Udělám snídani (why perfective???) a piju kávu (impfc, repeated action) Could you explain please?

[@notoriusmaximus783]

The perfective form in the second sentence has the meaning of "futurum exactum" (future perfect; future event predecessing another future event), i.e. first "I make a breakfast" and then "I drink a coffe" - when I drink a coffe, the breakfast is already prepared, that hot coffe is a result of breakfast preparation, which is by that moment completed. If you used the imperfective version, the meaning would change into two concurrent activities - drinking a coffe whereas you are preparing a breakfast, unless you used adverb "potom" or "pak" right after (or instead of) the conjunction "a".

[@1rsalc]

@@notoriusmaximus783 Great explanation. Thank you! Děkuji za vysvětleni!

[@infinitechoices1641]

So i fully understand this but how do i make my own perfective and imperfective words? How am suppose to know if something is perfective or not if both can have a prefix infront of them?

[@uyakashine]

Ahoj,mám dotaz.jak to musim rikat se "dělat" v imperfective čas. Například: Včera jsem dělal (je to perfective) A imperfective??

[@josefbauer7767]

Já dělám, ty děláš, on, ona , ono dělá. My děláme, vy děláte, oni a ony dělají. Budu dělat zítra, dělal jsem včera a všechno jsem podělal - jako pokazil.:-D. My jsme dělali, vy jste dělali, oni a ony dělali nebo budou teprve dělat.

[@notoriusmaximus783]

"Dělat" is imperfective. Perfective version is "udělat".

[@MajklShon1976]

Hey Rich here's a link to go together with your video: www.locallingo.com/czech/grammar/verbal_aspect.html

[@LearnCzechwithRich]

+Michael Reischman thanks Michael, I have added the links into the video description. :)

[@alexandertangaring6947]

Hello! does somebody know all Imperfective a Perfective verbs? I would like you know all verbs, I will be grateful if somebody give me all table.

[@LearnCzechwithRich]

+Alexander Tangaring wow I am not sure about all of them, however, the book 401 Czech Verbs is a great place to start!

[@alexandertangaring6947]

thanks so much Rich. you are very kind.

[@alexandertangaring6947]

By the way Rich, Can you recommend me some good learning Czech books with audio? thanks first.

[@samuelmikulasko]

This is not really how it'd work here. There's about 20 000 to 30 000 verbs and nearly all of them have both perfective and imperfective forms so the spreadsheet would be quite long. Even more so again, most of the imperfective verbs have more than one form which slightly changes the meaning too. For example "dělat" which means to do. You have "dodělat" which means to finish something, then you have "předělat" which means to make over in like making a makeover to someone or something. Creating a table would be nearly impossible and I can tell you right now that It doesn't even exit. It's not like English irregular verbs.

[@MajklShon1976]

Hey Rich here's another link to go together with your video: cokdybysme.net/pdfs/aspect.pdf

[@mr.nobody.9063]

Ja už viem po česky

[@josefbauer7767]

Po slovensky to je. :-)

[@AKB-dz2bn]

it's very hard to understand :(