Uticháte

Uticháte is a Czech verb form used to describe a group becoming quiet. It is the second-person plural present indicative form of the verb utichat, which means to fall silent or to quiet down. The form is used when addressing more than one person, signaling that they should become or are becoming quiet.

Usage and context

Uticháte appears in everyday Czech in contexts where silence is requested or noted in a group setting, such as classrooms, meetings, performances, or gatherings. The tone can range from courteous to firm depending on context and intonation. Although it denotes a current, ongoing change of state, it can be used both descriptively (the crowd quiets) and as a directive directed at a group.

Grammatical notes

Uticháte is an imperfective verb form, indicating an ongoing process rather than a completed action. The infinitive form is utichat. As a present-tense form, uticháte corresponds to the subject pronoun vy (you, plural). The word belongs to the standard Czech verbal system and has related noun forms such as utichnutí, referring to the act or moment of becoming quiet, and tišší/tišeící derivatives that describe the state of quiet.

Etymology and related forms

The verb utichat is built from a root connected to quiet or silent and a prefix that signals initiation of a state. It is linguistically related to other Czech terms for silence, such as ticho, and to related verbs describing quieting or quiet behavior.

See also

Czech verbs of becoming quiet, utichnutí, ticho, zmlknout.