Learn how to use the verb "to come"
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| Ahoj, já jsem Veronika. Hi everybody! I am Veronika. |
| Welcome to CzechClass101.com’s “Česky za 3 minuty”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Czech. |
| In the last lesson, you learned how to use the verb milovat. |
| In this lesson, you will learn how to use příjít, the fourth verb in our series dedicated to the most common Czech verbs. |
| Přijít means "to come" in Czech, and we use it a lot! So let’s go! Tak začněme!! |
| Imagine a friend of yours is organizing a barbeque party and he asks you: Přijdeš ke mně na grilovačku? That means "Are you coming to my house for a barbeque party?" |
| So supposing you want to go, you will say, Ano, přijdu! That means "Yes I’m coming!" |
| [slowly] Ano, přijdu. |
| So let’s break down this answer: |
| First we had: |
| Ano, which is simply "Yes." |
| Then přijdu, which is the 1st person of the verb přijít in present indicative tense. |
| So, all together it is Ano, přijdu. |
| In Czech, přijít is quite similar to the English "to come." |
| The basic meaning is "to go somewhere, where someone is already waiting", or to join other people. |
| It can also mean “to come back”. |
| It is a very common verb that you should be careful not to mix up with jít, which only means "to go to", as we’ve seen before. |
| Přijít also means “to come back home”. If you want to know whether your husband is going to be late tonight, for example, you can ask him: |
| V kolik přijdeš domů? That is “At what time are you coming home?” |
| If you want to answer this question and don’t know exactly what time you will be coming back, you can simply say: |
| Dnes přijdu pozdě. or “Today I will be coming home late.” |
| Or the opposite is brzo, which means “early”. |
| Dnes přijdu brzo. |
| In Czech, we have another very useful verb that has a very similar meaning and can be used to say "to come back" or "to come again". This verb is vrátit se. |
| For example, if you want to say "I'll come back tomorrow", it is just Vrátím se zítra! |
| Or if you want to say “Today I will be coming home late” in a different way than before, you can say Dnes se vrátím pozdě. |
| Now it’s time for Veronika’s Insights. |
| Maybe you remember from lesson 17 that there is a very similar verb to the verb jít, and it is jet, meaning “to go by a vehicle”. |
| So you can maybe guess that there is not only the verb přijít, but also přijet. Přijet means “to come by a vehicle”. |
| For example you can ask a friend, who lives in a distant city: Přijedeš ke mně na návštěvu?, which means “Will you come and visit me?” knowing that he or she will probably have to use a vehicle to get to you. |
| In this lesson, we learned how to use the verb přijít to ask people to join others! |
| So now, our lesson series about common Czech verbs is over, and from the next lesson, we will jump into some very important interrogative Czech words! |
| Do you know how to ask questions starting with "What" in Czech? |
| I’ll be waiting for you in the next Česky za 3 minuty lesson. |
| Ahoj příště! |
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