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jednat impf
- (intransitive) to act
- Je nejvyšší čas jednat. ― It is high time to act.
- (intransitive) to negotiate, to treat
- (reflexive with se) to concern, to be about
- Jedná se o nedorozumění. ― It is a misunderstanding.
- Praha je hlavní město České republiky. Jedná se o město ležící na řece Vltavě. ― Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic. It is situated on the Vltava river.
- The pattern of phrasing "A je B. Jedná se o C" is often semantically equivalent to "A je B. A je C", and can be rendered as "A is B. It is C". In general, the part "Jedná se o C" has an unclear subject, one that is to be sought somewhere in the sentence that precedes it.
Conjugation
| The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive jednat. |
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- jednati in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- jednati in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- jednat in Internetová jazyková příručka
