stiháme

Stiháme is a Czech verb form meaning “we manage” or “we keep up,” and it is the 1st person plural present tense of the imperfective verb stíhat. The imperfective aspect emphasizes ongoing or repeated action, such as keeping up with a pace or meeting a deadline, without focusing on its completion. The related perfective form is stihnout, which denotes a completed achievement of the action, often used to express that something will be done in time.

Usage and meaning

Stíháme is commonly used to describe the ability to perform tasks within a given time frame or to maintain pace under pressure. It can convey a sense of coordination among people who share a task, or a claim about one's own and others’ capacity to catch up or keep up. In everyday speech, it often appears with time-bound contexts, deadlines, or schedules. For negative or opposite meaning, nestíháme is used to say that one cannot keep up or finish in time.

Examples

- Stíháme to stihnout do konce týdne. (We manage to finish it by the end of the week.)

- Snažíme se stíhat tempo a vyhovět termínům. (We try to keep up with the pace and meet the deadlines.)

- Nestíháme se dočkat rána. (We can’t wait for morning, we’re falling behind.)

Related forms

Stíhat (to keep up, to manage to do) and stihnout (to manage to do, to finish in time) are the main related verbs. The noun stíhání can mean pursuit or, in a legal sense, prosecution or investigation.

See also

Czech verb aspect, stíhat, stihnout, nestíhat, cadence of present tense in Czech.