mít + Passive Participle (Result)

This pattern is highly productive in everyday Czech and is often preferred over the standard periphrastic passive because it sounds more natural and personal. Specifically, in its absolute use (like mám uvařeno), the construction emphasizes the subject's possession of the result, whether they are the agent (I cooked) or the recipient (e.g., mám zaplaceno - I have paid / I have been paid), whereas the standard periphrastic passive (je uvařeno) backgrounds or demotes the agent (though it can still be expressed with the instrumental case).

1. Transitive Use (With an Object)
When there is a direct object, the participle typically agrees with it in gender, number, and case (accusative). For example: Mám psa nakrmeného. (I have the dog fed). You can use two forms:

• Long (adjectival) form: Mám zprávu připravenou. (Standard, neutral form used in both speech and writing).
• Short (nominal) form: Mám zprávu připravenu. (Formal writing). For masculine inanimate, it is identical to the nominative (Mám úkol připraven), for neuter, it ends in -o (Mám auto opraveno), and for feminine, it ends in -u (Mám zprávu připravenu). For masculine animate nouns, the short form ends in -a (Mám psa nakrmena), but this is highly archaic, so learners should always use the long form (Mám psa nakrmeného). In the plural, the short form ends in -y for masculine and feminine (Mám úkoly připraveny) and -a for neuter (Mám auta opravena).

2. Absolute / Impersonal Use (No Object)
If there is no explicit object, the participle takes the default objectless neuter singular ending -o. The verb does not have to be strictly transitive; intransitive verbs can be used in this impersonal construction as long as they can form a passive participle.

• Mám uvařeno. (I have the cooking done / The food is ready).
• Mám odpočinuto. (I am rested).
• Mám zatopeno. (I have made a fire / The heating is on).

Dropping Reflexive Pronouns: If the original verb is reflexive (with se or si), the reflexive pronoun is dropped in this construction (e.g., sbalit se -> mám sbaleno, odpočinout si -> mám odpočinuto).

In Common Czech (especially in Bohemia), the entire suffix -eno is frequently replaced by the colloquial ending -íno (e.g., uvařeno -> mám uvaříno, uklizeno -> mám uklizíno). Note that this only applies to verbs taking the -eno suffix, not those taking -to (e.g., vypito) or -áno (e.g., napsáno), which remain unchanged in Common Czech. Learners should strictly avoid the -íno ending in writing and stick to the standard forms.

3. Use in Past and Future Tenses
This pattern freely conjugates to express past or future states by changing the tense of mít:

• Past: Měl jsem uvařeno. (I had the cooking done / The food was ready).
• Future: Budu mít uvařeno. (I will have the cooking done / The food will be ready).

4. Key Distinctions

• Not the English Present Perfect: While often translated as 'I have cooked', it strongly emphasizes the possession of a state, not just past action with present relevance. Because this construction expresses the result of a completed action, it is overwhelmingly formed with perfective verbs. Imperfective verbs are rarely used.
• Agent, Causative, or Recipient: The subject can be the agent (Mám uvařeno = I cooked it), the instigator of a causative action (Mám auto opravené = I had my car repaired by someone else), OR the recipient of someone else's action (Mám přidělený byt = Someone assigned an apartment to me). A closely related and very frequent alternative for the recipient passive uses the verb dostat (e.g., Dostal jsem přidělený byt).
• Vs. Active Past: Uvařil jsem focuses on the event that happened. Mám uvařeno focuses on the fact that the food is ready right now.

5. Word Order and Meaning
Word order is crucial for distinguishing this resultative pattern from a simple adjective modifying a noun. Placing the participle after the object triggers the specific resultative meaning: Mám psa nakrmeného. (I have fed the dog). Conversely, placing the participle before the object usually acts as a simple adjective modifying the noun: Mám nakrmeného psa. (I have a fed dog).