uticháme

Uticháme is the present tense form of the Czech verb utichat, meaning to become quiet or to fall silent. It expresses that a group, sound, or emotion has subsided in intensity. The sense can be literal (noise or voices quieting) or figurative (tension or debate subsiding).

Grammatically, utichat is intransitive; uticháme is used with a subject that is performing the quieting, such as a dav (crowd) or hluk (noise). Other present tense forms are utichám (1st person singular), uticháš (2nd person singular), utichá (3rd person singular), uticháte (2nd person plural), and utichají (3rd person plural). The verb is formed from the adjective tichý (silent) with the prefix u-, a common Czech pattern to indicate the onset or change of a state.

Usage notes: uticháme is used in everyday speech, literature, and reporting to convey a sudden or gradual end of noise or dispute, and can describe emotional quieting as well as physical quieting. It often appears in narrative prose to signal a pause or shift to silence within a scene, or in dialogue to indicate a collective action to stop talking.

See also: tichý, zmlknout, utichnout, utišit.