L1: Seznamujeme se
| Site: | Moodle UK pro výuku 1 |
| Course: | HAS: CZECH LANGUAGE I. + II. - PRODUCTIVE LANGUAGE SKILLS - RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE SKILLS |
| Book: | L1: Seznamujeme se |
| Printed by: | Visiteur anonyme |
| Date: | Friday, 22 November 2024, 1:29 AM |
1. Abeceda
| Czech Alphabet | English Sound | Pronunciation Example |
|---|---|---|
| A a | u | u like in the word fun |
| Á á | a | a like in the word father |
| B b | b | b like in the word bat |
| C c | ts | ts like in the word bits |
| Č č | ch | ch like in the word chat |
| D d | d | d like in the word dog |
| Ď ď | dy | dy sound like 'du' in duel |
| E e | e | e like in the word red |
| É é | ai | ai like in the word pair |
| Ě ě | ye | ye like in the word yes |
| F f | f | f like in the word far |
| G g | g | g like in the word gap |
| H h | h | h like in the word hot |
| CH ch | ch | ch like in the word loch |
| I i | i | i like in the word fit |
| Í í | ee | ee like in the word bee |
| J j | y | y like in the word yes |
| K k | k | k like in the word kit |
| L l | l | l like in the word lip |
| M m | m | m like in the word mat |
| N n | n | n like in the word nut |
| Ň ň | ny | ny sound like 'n' in onion |
| O o | o | o like in the word hot |
| Ó ó | oo | oo like in the word door |
| P p | p | p like in the word pin |
| R r | r | r like in the word rat |
| Ř ř | rž | rž sound like 'rg' in bourgois |
| S s | s | s like in the word sun |
| Š š | sh | sh like in the word ship |
| T t | t | t like in the word top |
| Ť ť | ty | ty sound like 'tu' in tune |
| U u | u | u like in the word push |
| Ú ú | oo | oo like in the word fool |
| Ů ů | oo | oo like in the word fool |
| V v | v | v like in the word vat |
| Y y | i | i like in the word bit |
| Ý ý | ee | ee like in the word bee |
| Z z | z | z like in the word zip |
| Ž ž | zh | zh sound like 's' in treasure |
| Qq, Ww, Xx | in foreign words only |
2. ŘŘŘŘ
The articulation for Ř derives from the palatal R (not the French one). When you want to pronounce ř place your top and bottom teeth slightly together, purse your lips and whisper the following words: tri, tri, tri...(without even trying to say ř - it will come out by itself).
3. Why does Czech have cases? How are the cases used?
Czech declension is a complex system of grammatically determined modifications of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals in the Czech language. As with many other Slavic languages, Czech has seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative and instrumental inherited from Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Slavic. This essentially means that a word can have 14 possible forms in singular and plural. Some forms match in more than one place in each paradigm.
Each noun has 7 different cases it can be refered to by. These cases are so standardized that they are often refered to by their ordinal number:
I grabbed WikiPedias descriptions until I write my own summaries.
It helps to understand exactly what subjects, direct objects, and other parts of the language are... Because the noun cases use the different nouns to distinguish exactly the noun as that part of the grammar.
In other words, you can pretty much scramble the order of words in a Czech sentence, and decode what each part is from the case it is written in.
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Nominative -- who/what (Person as a Direct Object??): the dictionary form of nou/ adj., pronouns, some nunerals. It expresses the subject of a sentence. (STUDENT je ve škole - The student is at school.)
- Genitive -- without whom/what: possesive or partitive meaning ( Kniha STUDENTA - The book of a student)
- Dative -- to whom/what: the indirect object in a sentence (Dám dárek STUDENTOVI - I will give a present to the student.)
- Accusative -- I see whom/what: the direct object in a sentence (Vidím STUDENTA - I see a student.)
- Vocative -- I call (Addressing a person directly): the addressing form (Adame! - Adam!)
- Locative -- about whom/what: location (Jsem ve škole - I am at school.)
- Instrumental -- with whom/what: the means or instruments by or with which an action is carried out. (Jedu autem - I go by car.)
| Case | Prepositions used with this case (more on prepositions) |
| 1. nominative | no preposition |
| 2. genitive | bez - without blízko - near do - to, into, until od - from okolo / kolem - around, about u - at, by (location) vedle - next to z / ze - from |
| 3. dative | k / ke - to, towards kvůli - because of, due to navzdor(y) - in spite of, despite proti / naproti- against vůči - towards, to, against |
| 4. accusative | na - on, onto (direction) o - for pro - for přes - in spite of za - for, on behalf of, in the course of |
| 5. vocative | no preposition |
| 6. locative | na - on (location) o - about po - after v / ve - in |
| 7. instrumental | mezi - between nad - above, over pod - below, under před - in front of, before s / se - with za - behind |
4. Interesting Czech Language Facts
1. Czech is one of the West Slavic languages
Not only does the Czech language share similarities with other Slavic languages such as Polish and Russian, but it was also influenced by Latin and German.
2. There are around 10 million Czech speakers in the world
The Czech speakers are primarily in Czech Republic where it is an official language. A benefit of learning Czech is that it is also mutually intelligible with the Slovak language.
3. Czech used to be known as Bohemian
Bohemian is language of Bohemia, a region of today’s Czech Republic.
4. Several Czech words have made it into English
Some of these words include dollar, pistol, polka and robot.
5. Some Czech words don’t have any vowels
This is because in Czech, consonants can act as vowels. For example, the tongue twister “Strč prst skrz krk“, meaning “put your finger through your throat”, is made only of consonants.