Zasáhne

Zasáhne is the third-person singular form of the Czech verb zasáhnout. The verb means to hit, strike, or to come into contact with something, and it can also be used figuratively to mean to affect, influence, or reach someone or something. As a perfective verb, zasáhnout expresses a completed action and, in present tense usage, the form zasáhne typically denotes a future occurrence in ordinary speech.

In physical contexts, zasáhne is used for objects or beings that are struck or hit. For example, Střela zasáhne cíl. translates to The shot will hit the target. In figurative uses, it can describe something that affects people or events, as in Ta událost zasáhne mnoho lidí, meaning The event will affect many people, or To zasáhne každého, meaning That will affect everyone.

Grammatically, zasáhne follows regular conjugation patterns of perfective verbs of the -nout group. The present tense forms are: já zasáhnu, ty zasáhneš, on/ona/ono zasáhne, my zasáhneme, vy zasáhnete, oni zasáhnou. The corresponding noun form is zásah, meaning an impact, hit, or intervention.

Etymology: zasáhnout is built with the prefix za- attached to sáhnout (to touch or reach). The prefix adds sense of completion or reaching a target, yielding the meaning “to strike, to affect, to hit.” Related terms include zásah (an impact or intervention), zasáhnout se (to strike one’s self in idiomatic uses), and other derivatives built from sáhnout and zasáhnout.