Zrychlit

Zrychlit is a Czech verb meaning to accelerate or to speed up. It is a perfective, transitive verb used to indicate making something faster, either a motion, a process, or a system. Its imperfective counterpart is zrychlovat, which denotes the ongoing or repeated act of speeding up. In everyday speech, zrychlit can refer to actions such as speeding up a vehicle or hastening a procedure.

Origin and related forms: The form zrychlit is built from the adjective rychlý (fast) with the prefix z-, giving the sense of “to make fast.” The related noun zrychlení means acceleration, while zrychlování refers to the process of speeding up. Common synonyms include urychlit, which has a similar meaning but is used in various contexts to emphasize making something faster.

Examples and contexts: You can say “zrychlit motor auta” (to speed up the car’s engine), “zrychlit průběh vyšetřování” (to hasten the course of an investigation), or “zrychlit internetové připojení” (to increase internet speed). In physics, zrychlení denotes acceleration—the rate of change of velocity—and is measured in metres per second squared (m/s^2).

Usage note: As a perfective verb, zrychlit typically expresses a completed action or a future intention; its imperfective counterpart zrychlovat focuses on the process or repetition.