klesám

Klesám is the first-person singular present tense form of the Czech verb klesat, which means to descend, to sink, to drop, or to decline. The verb klesat is imperfective and intransitive, describing a downward movement or a decrease over time. The corresponding third-person form is klesá (he/she/it declines), and the third-person plural is klesají (they decline). The non-reflexive verb has related perfective forms such as klesnout (to descend or drop completely) and corresponding past and future forms.

As a verbal form, klesám is used when the speaker refers to their own ongoing descent or decline. In physical movement, it can describe descending a staircase or moving downward. In a figurative sense, it can describe a gradual decrease in quantity, value, or intensity, though in such contexts Czech more commonly uses other sentence constructions (for example, hodnota klesá, meaning “the value is decreasing”). The verb family also yields participles and nominal derivatives, such as klesající (decreasing) and klesání (the act of descending or the process of decline).

Typical grammar notes follow: klesat is imperfective, so klesám describes an ongoing, repeated, or general action rather than a completed event. The perfective counterpart klesnout expresses a single, completed descent or decline. The noun form klesání captures the concept of decline or descent as a process, while a related adjective form might appear in phrases describing things that are decreasing.

In usage, klesám occurs primarily in contexts emphasizing the speaker’s active descent or personal decline, whereas broader statements about falling values or quantities use other forms or the third-person present tense.