9.3 – posílat / poslat ‘to send’

9.3 – posílat / poslat ‘to send’

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9.3 – posílat / poslat ‘to send’

We send various things:

dopis – letter

balík – package

e-mail – e-mail

esemeska – sms, text message

textovka (less frequent) – text message

zpráva – message

In this lesson we’ll learn a new verb posílat / poslat – 'to send'. Remember, now that we have learned verbal aspect, we need to learn both an imperfective and perfective verb:

Imperfective posílat ‘to send’

posílám

my

posíláme

ty

posíláš

vy

posíláte

on, ona, ono

posílá

oni (ony, ona)

posílají

Use imperfective posílat to talk about:

  • what you are currently sending
  • what you regularly send / will regularly send
  • additionally, you can use posílat to talk about sending something to someone when you are unsure if it was received (and hence whether it was completed)

Posílám kolegovi e-maily každý týden.

Posílal jsem ti zprávy. Dostala jsi je?

Perfective poslat

Perfective poslat has an irregular conjugation:

pošlu

my

pošleme

ty

pošleš

vy

pošlete

on, ona, ono

pošle

oni (ony, ona)

pošlou

Use perfective poslat to talk about:

  • a completed act of sending something in the past
  • an intention or plan to send something a single time in the future

Minulý týden jsem poslala Milošovi balík.

Pošlu ti esemesku dneska večer.

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