stretával
Stretával is a verb form used in Slovak (and in some contexts in Czech) as the imperfective past tense of the verb stretávať, meaning to meet or to encounter. It denotes habitual or repeated meetings in the past rather than a single, completed event. The form is masculine singular; corresponding forms exist for other genders and numbers, such as stretávala (feminine singular) and stretávali (plural). The related reflexive form stretávať sa expresses meeting with others over time.
Stretával signals that the action of meeting occurred regularly or repeatedly in the past. It is typically
- Keď som býval v meste, stretával som ho často na námestí. (When I lived in the town,
- On sa stretával s kamarátmi každý víkend. (He used to meet his friends every weekend.)
- Spomínam, ako sme sa stretávali pred rokom na univerzite. (I remember how we used to meet at
Stretával originates from the Slovak verb stretávať, rooted in the common Slavic verb stem meaning “to meet.”