Setkávají

Setkávají is the third-person plural present tense form of the Czech verb setkávat se, which means to meet (with each other) or to get together. It is the imperfective counterpart to the perfective setkat se, which refers to a single meeting or a completed event. The imperfective form often conveys repetition, habit, or a general sense of meeting rather than a one-time occurrence.

Setkávat se is a reflexive verb and is used with the reflexive pronoun se. In compounds with a direct object, it can take the preposition s in the instrumental case, for example: setkávají se s přáteli (they meet with friends). The verb is conjugated as follows in the present tense: já setkávám se, ty setkáváš se, on/ona/to setkává se, my setkáváme se, vy setkáváte se, oni/ony setkávají se.

Usage notes: setkávají se typically describes regular or repeated meetings, such as social gatherings, routine meetings, or casual encounters that happen more than once. It can also indicate ongoing processes of meeting people in a particular context, rather than a single, completed event.

Related forms: setkat se (to meet, to meet up—perfective), setkání (a meeting, an event), setkávat se with similar imperfective sense. The choice between imperfective and perfective affects aspect and nuance: setkávat se emphasizes the act of meeting itself, while setkat se emphasizes the occurrence of a specific meeting.

In Czech usage, setkávají se appears commonly in conversational and written text to describe people who meet regularly or habitually, or to describe ongoing social activities.