Hlásily

Hlásily is a Czech verb form representing the past tense of the verb hlásit, which means to report, inform, or announce. The form hlásily is used with feminine plural subjects and expresses that a reporting or announcing action took place in the past. It corresponds to other past-tense forms of hlásit for different subjects, such as hlásil (masculine singular), hlásila (feminine singular), and hlásili (masculine or mixed-gender plural).

In typical usage, hlásily appears in narrative or reported speech to indicate that a group of people, described as feminine or as a feminine subject, reported something. For example: Ženy hlásily, že dorazí pozdě. This sentence translates to “The women reported that they would arrive late.” The form is part of standard Czech verb conjugation and follows the general rule that past-tense forms agree with the subject in gender and number.

Etymology and related forms: hlásit comes from a Slavic root associated with voice, signal, or announcement (linked to the Czech noun hlas, meaning voice or signal). The word is typically used in everyday Czech to describe communications, alerts, or notifications given after an event or decision. Distinct from the perfective counterpart ohlašovat/ohlásit, which conveys a completed act in a single occurrence, hlásit is generally the imperfective aspect used for ongoing or repeated reporting in the past.

See also: Czech verb conjugation, past tense in Czech, aspect in Slavic languages.