doprovázet

Doprovázet is a Czech verb meaning to accompany or escort someone or something. It can refer to accompanying a person on a journey, staying with someone for support, or providing accompaniment at an event. The verb is imperfective; its perfective counterpart is doprovodit, used when the act is completed.

Usage: The verb is transitive and commonly takes a person or animal as the object, with a destination or context expressed by a prepositional phrase (do, na, k). In music or performance it can mean to accompany with accompaniment, as in a pianist who doprovází singer. Examples: Doprovázím dítě do školy. Doprovázel ji na nádraží. Píseň je doprovázena klavírem.

Conjugation and aspect: Doprovázet is imperfective and transitive. In present tense: já doprovázím, ty doprovázíš, on doprovází, my doprovázíme, vy doprovázíte, oni doprovázejí. The past imperfect is formed with být in the past tense plus the short past participle (doprovázal, doprovázela, doprovázelo, doprovázeli). The perfective form doprovodit describes a completed act of accompanying (já doprovodím, ty doprovodíš, on doprovodí, my doprovodíme, vy doprovodíte, oni doprovodí). There is also a passive-participle form doprovázený used with “byl/doprovázený” in some constructions. Related noun is doprovod (escort, attendant) and adjective doprovodný (accompanying).

Notes: The term appears in formal and everyday Czech and covers escorting a person to a place, attending an event, or providing musical or other accompaniment. Etymology involves prefix do- with a root related to leading, conveying the sense of leading someone to a destination.