How Hard Is It to Learn Czech?

The good news here is that once you learn what a specific prefix means and learn to discern them in context, you can often make very accurate guesses as to what a specific word means. So, let’s take the prefix od- which means (among other things) to remove a part, or to make visible, and the root word krýt meaning protect or cover. By combining the two, you get odkrýt – which, quite logically, means to uncover or discover.