Czech Grammar Resources 001 - Learning Czech Grammar

[MyEmmaLeeRose]

I love language!!! :D lol

[luger205]

One hint on the patterns again - a one all the kids in school use... If you want to find under which pattern word a noun falls, you jou just need to know it's genitive. For example for a word LIST kids use to say: LIST bez LISTU as HRAD bez HRADU... (hrad is the pattern word) And as the other pattern words for masculine nouns are: pán, muž, stroj (genitives pána, muže, stroje) no other ending matches. (I am leaving behind 2 special pattern words předseda and soudce here).

[FluentCzech]

@luger205 thank you for all of the kind and helpful comments you have added to my videos. The advice about deciding on which declination pattern to follow is a good one. The only headache us poor foreigners face is that there are 57 patterns to learn, and most textbooks only show the most common 12 or so, such as pan, hrad, žena, růže. It is taking years for my brain to learn and absorb the other 45 patterns.

[luger205]

@FluentCzech Well actually all we learn in elementary school are the basic patterns I am not aware of any other myself though I consider myself to be well literate...

Pán, Hrad, muž stroj, předseda, soudce for masculine ones, Žena, růže píseň, kost for femininum, and Město, moře, kuře, stavení for neutral. Throw some more at me so I know what you are talking about please...

[FluentCzech]

@luger205 here are just a few from the top of my head that don't decline according to the basic 12 patterns: rameno, kněz, přítel, padák, den, virus, dítě, idea, muzeum, téma, vstupné ...

[luger205]

@FluentCzech @FluentCzech ok so I will take it 1 by one: RAMENO falls under MĚSTO, KNĚZ, PŘÍTEL falls under MUŽ, PADÁK, DEN, VIRUS belong to HRAD, IDEA under ŽENA, VSTUPNÉ is basically adjective though is used as NOUN - that's why you need special pattern for it, MUSEUM - yes, special case, word is taken from latin, so in 1st, 4th,5th cases it falls under MĚSTO, in other cases under MOŘE. These words do not have roots in CZ lang. thats why they are different.

[Pishtucha]

@luger205 hmmm... not only the genitive Form is important. For example PŘEDSEDA and ŽENA have both same endings when declined. The important fact is to know, if the Substantive is Neutrum, Masculinum or Femininum. And then the genitive forms.

[luger205]

@Pishtucha I took that as know fact so I did not bother to mention it :)

[Pishtucha]

@luger205 well, it's better to mention everything. :-D

btw. and you're czech?

[luger205]

@Pishtucha Well yeah, it is better to mention everything when you teaching a lamma, but mr. FluentCzech is obviously well informent thus no point to tell him right? And to answer your "are you czech" question all I can say is: Si piš :)

[Pishtucha]

@luger205 well... I didn't mean it like to mention it for Mr FluentCzech, but to mention it for other viewers of this vid.

Hustokrutě a přísnodémonsky!!!! A zkama pak seš? :-D a studuješ češtinu?

[luger205]

@Pishtucha Češtinu nestuduju, jen mám rád, když se správně používá :-) Jsem z Kladna, ale bydlím v Irsku.

[Pishtucha]

@luger205 což znamená, že jsi rarita ve virtuálním světě. Já taky ráda vidím, když se ČJ používá tak, jak má. A ještě radši vidím, když se cizinci snaží češtině naučit. A k tomu všemu češtinu studuju :-D

Tak to teda posílám pozdravy do Irska. :)

[GodmyX]

Pěkné... Jen tak dál.

[FluentCzech]

I don't know anything about Macedonian and Bulgarian, so thanks for the info. Much appreciated.

[getreallanguage]

Greatly enjoy your videos, but will go ahead and nitpick one thing if you'll let me. As far as I know, Macedonian and Bulgarian have all but lost case declension. So, _most_ slavic languages inflect words for case.