Podstupujete

Podstupujete is the second-person plural present tense form of the Czech verb podstupovat, meaning to undergo, experience, or be subjected to something. It is used to describe actions that the subject is currently facing or repeatedly encounters, often in formal or medical, bureaucratic, or everyday contexts. The phrase commonly accompanies nouns such as vyšetření (examination), testy (tests), léčbu (treatment), riziko (risk), or bolest (pain).

Grammatic and usage notes: podstupovat is the imperfective aspect, so podstupujete expresses an ongoing or habitual action rather than a single completed event. The related perfective form podstoupíte or podstoupí describes a single, completed occurrence and, in present-day usage, may convey future meaning in Czech (as the present form of a perfective verb often refers to a forthcoming action). The verb is typically used with direct objects in the accusative case (podstupujete vyšetření, podstupujete operaci, podstupujete riziko).

Common contexts and collocations: medical contexts (podstupovat vyšetření, léčbu, operaci), legal or administrative settings (podstupovat zkoušky, vyřizovat postupy), and everyday life (podstupovat riziko, podstupovat změny). It is also used in questions and conditional clauses, such as “Podstupujete-li riziko, je důležité být informováni,” to denote ongoing or hypothetical situations.

See also: podstoupit (perfective counterpart meaning to undergo in a single or future occurrence), podstupovat (imperfective base form), Czech verbal aspects and present-tense conjugation patterns.