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The original was posted on /r/slovakia by /u/ObscurePaprika on 2023-08-18 14:47:10+00:00.

Hello everyone – I’m studying Slovak and am having a hard time finding resources to illustrate how Slovak verbs can map to English verb tenses. For example -

present simple tense, I read, versus čitam, or I am running / čitam

It gets complicated for English speakers when we try to map verb prefixes like do, vy, po, etc. For example,

perfect continuous, I had been drinking, versus dopijem, or I will drink / napijem. And don’t get me started on napijam versus napijem because I have no idea. :)

The way I see it, since Slovak only has three tenses, it uses verb prefixes to clarify if something is in the future, or has finished. I am curious how others have tried to understand this? Thanks!