odstranit

Odstranit is a Czech verb meaning to remove, take away, eliminate, or delete. It is a prefixed verb formed with the prefix od- and is used transitively to indicate making something no longer present or accessible. The sense covers both physical removal (for example, removing objects) and deletion in data or text (for example, removing a file or a sentence).

Grammatical notes: Odstranit is a perfective verb, so its finite forms express future action. Common conjugation in the first person singular is odstraním; second person singular is odstraníš; third person singular is odstraní; the first person plural is odstraníme; second person plural is odstraníte; third person plural is odstraní. Its imperfective counterpart is odstraňovat, used for ongoing or repeated removal. The past participle is odstraněný, and the noun form for the act is odstranění. An adjective sense is expressed by odstranitelný (removable).

Usage examples: In everyday speech you might say: Musíme odstranit překážky (We must remove the obstacles). In computing: odstranit soubor means to delete a file; odstranit záznam means to remove a record. In editing or text processing: odstranit větu means to delete a sentence.

Related terms: odstranění (the act of removing), odstraněný (removed), odstraňování (the process of removing), and the adjective form odstranitelný (removable).