How To Use My Czech–English Dictionary

I received an e-mail with a few questions, or suggestions, regarding my blog and this is a part of my response to it. And thank you for the feedback, by the way! (:

There are not many words but I'm doing my best to add as much as I can every day (or when I remember to do it) and I don't want it to be useless. 

One thing is that it's a bit confusing so I'll add large letters to indicate where words starting with the certain letter start ASAP (or when I remember to do that).

How do you find an English word you want to know in Czech? 

Well, this is an online site, not a book, so pressing Ctrl+F can solve pretty much everything.

Why do you need to know the dative of every noun? 

1) It helps you find out in which paradigm the word is declined (suffixes, remember? :) without having to memorize the paradigm for each noun.

2) Depending on which part of the word stays the same (declined and not declined) you continue declining by only changing the suffixes.

Another example:

I think everything is clear from this description but if you have any question, leave a comment below or send me a message. 

love & peace

Ciray

Prdg. MĚSTO– Declension

Město

      SINGULAR                                                     PLURAL

1) (nominative)    město                                       1) města

2) (genitive)         města                                       2) měst

3) (dative)            městu                                       3) městům

4) (accusative)     město                                       4) města

5) (vocative)        město                                       5) města

6) (locative)         městě                                       6) městech

7) (instrumental)  městem                                    7) městy

Welcome To My New Bedroom ♥

Hello everyone,

I might have mentioned it already but it was just a small note, soooo. I've got a new bedroom! I'm not doing "vlogs" so there's no "Room Tour" happening, sorry. There's nothing to look at, anyway, because there's almost no furniture. Too bad, I know.

Anyway, I'll show you some bits of it. So let's start.

I think the main reason to make a new bedroom (well, it had to be virtually built, since there hadn't been heating, windowsills, not even a "normal" floor -_- That's why it took about six months to bring it into the state it is now in.) was me playing the violin. There wasn't enough space in my old bedroom so I had to play it in the living room which my parents found annoying (don't know why, they don't recognize playing out of tune), of course. And that is why it's in the attic where it gets unbearably hot in summer (thank you very much). So the talking about me being old and responsible enough was a bunch of ... talking.

Just between us– since there is barely some furniture and no carpet the echo makes the sound even louder and when I leave the windows open while practicing, the whole street can hear it. Muheheee.

What makes the biggest impression is the colour of the walls. I chose two colours– this was the first and last thing my parents did as I wanted it to be done, by the way. Lavender and white seemed to be the best combination to me because they are not too "aggressive" and don't draw so much attention therefore it's easier to combine the colour of the furniture, accessories, and the floor with them.

Okay, it's actually a bit lighter than in this picture.

And when talking about the floor– I wanted it grey... What do you think, what colour is it? When I'm asking so idiotically, it's probably not grey, huh? 

This is how you ruin your kid's childhood.

Don't get this wrong, I'm not spoilt (and it's not because I never get what I want). My parents meant it right, they think I might want to change the colour of the walls in the future and the colour might not go with the grey floor. Which contradicts my allegation that every freaking colour goes with grey.

I must say that I don't know what to think about my view through the window. So... much... forest... Yes, it's amazing how they can keep so many trees in a big city (not so big but in comparison to others in our surrounding...) but this is not very nice. Take a look.

Partly our neighbours' garden. Hehe.

Partly our neighbours' house.

The third window is 2 metres above the floor so I cannot really see outside through it (but there are some houses and a forest in the background) and the fourth one is the one you can see our garden through so I'm not posting a picture, because I'm incognito... And I haven't mowed the grass this week yet. And I'm not going to, it takes freaking three hours.

So, that's all. 

And I wanted to mention that our holiday has started so I'll have a lot of time to post on here. You're happy.... aren't you?

love & peace

Ciray

Things We Do Differently– Saying "I Love You"

"You're my best friend," he said to him, "I love you." "What? You're gay?"

Seriously, if you ever decide to express your affection or favor towards someone in Czech, don't say "I love you" (= miluji tě). Not even a mom to her child. We just don't say this because it sounds weird. Save it for your spouse or dear half or whoever you actually love in an intimate, romantic way. 

When you want to say the English "I love you" to a friend/mom/dad/child, just use "I like you" (= mám tě rád/a depending on whether you're a boy or a girl)– and even that is too emotional for us. 

Conjugation– SEDĚT (to sit)

PRESENT TENSE

Já sedět                                   My sedíme

Ty sedíš                                   Vy sedíte 

On/a/o sedí                              Oni/y/a sedí

FUTURE TENSE

Já budu sedět                          My budeme sedět

Ty budeš sedět                        Vy budete sedět

On/a/o bude sedět                   Oni/y/a budou sedět

PAST TENSE

Já jsem seděl/a/o                     My jsme seděli/y/a

Ty jsi seděl/a/o                        Vy jste seděli/y/a

On/a/o seděl/a/o                      Oni seděli/y/a

IMPERATIVE

Já ---                                         My seďme

Ty seď                                      Vy seďte

On/a/o ať sedí                          Oni ať sedí

(Why is there "ď" instead of "d" in some forms of the imperatives? Because the "d" in "sedíte" is read as "ď", too and therefore the shorter form has to be written with "ď".)

Example sentences: 
Sedí za tebou. (She/he/it/they is/are sitting behind you.)
Můžu sedět příští rok vedle tebe? (Can I sit next to you next year?)
Neseděli jsme, protože tam bylo moc lidí. (We weren't sitting because there were too many people.)

Prdg. PÁN (divák) – Declension

Pán

      SINGULAR                                                     PLURAL

1) (nominative)    pán                                     1) páni/pánové

2) (genitive)         pána                                    2) pánů

3) (dative)            pánovi/pánu                        3) pánům

4) (accusative)     pána                                   4) pány

5) (vocative)        pane (diváku)                     5) páni/pánové

6) (locative)         pánovi/ pánu                       6) pánech (divácích)

7) (instrumental)  pánem                                 7) pány

Pán represents another forms of singular vocative and plural locative cases because some nouns declined according to pán sounded weird with the suffixes -e or -ech so they were replaced with the suffixes -u or -ích. In my dictionary, nouns declined according to the paradigm divák (declined the same way as pán except for the two endings) are assigned the paradigm divák.

Things We Do Differently– Capital Letters

The capitals are a dangerous enemy to lots of Czechs. There are not many rules but we are just... lazy. I know, I use this as an excuse too often. But we are.

I've made a short list of rules you should follow when writing in Czech. There are not all of them but the most important are, of course, included.

• Every sentence starts with a capital letter. 
• Days of the week, months, and seasons of the year start with a small letter.
• Names (of people, countries, planets, etc.) are written with a capital at the beginning.
• A citizen of a certain state (nouns: Čech/Češka, Polák/Polka, ...) is written with a capital.
• An adjective formed from a noun (e. g. Amerika=> americký) starts with a small letter. (Applies to names.)
• Languages start with a small letter (e. g. angličtina, čeština, arabština, etc.)

love & peace

Ciray