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Czech
Bohemian[1]
čeština, český jazyk
Native to
Czech Republic
Ethnicity
Czechs
Native speakers
10.7 million (2015)[2]
Language family
Indo-European
Balto-Slavic
Slavic
West Slavic
Czech–Slovak
Czech
Writing system
Latin script (Czech alphabet)
Czech Braille
Official status
Official language in
Czech Republic
European Union
Recognised minority
language in
Austria[3]
Bosnia and Herzegovina[3]
Croatia[3]
Poland[4]
Romania[3]
Slovakia[3]
Regulated by
Institute of the Czech Language
Language codes
ISO 639-1
cs
ISO 639-2
cze (B)
ces (T)
ISO 639-3
ces
Glottolog
czec1258[5]
Linguasphere
53-AAA-da < 53-AAA-b...-d
(varieties: 53-AAA-daa to 53-AAA-dam)
regions where Czech is the language of the majority
regions where Czech is the language of a significant minority
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Czech (/ˈtʃɛk/; čeština Czech pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃɛʃcɪna]), historically also Bohemian[6] (/boʊˈhiːmiən, bə-/;[7] lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group,[6] which is extensively influenced by Latin[8] and German.[9] Spoken by over 10 million people, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of mutual intelligibility to a very high degree.[10]
The Czecho-Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, and the standardisation of Czech and Slovak within the Czech–Slovak dialect continuum emerges in the early modern period. In the later 18th to mid-19th century, the modern written standard became codified in the context of the Czech National Revival. The main vernacular, known as Common Czech, is based on the vernacular of Prague, but is now spoken throughout most of the Czech Republic. The Moravian dialects spoken in the eastern part of the country are also classified as Czech, although some of their eastern variants are closer to Slovak.
Czech has a moderately-sized phoneme inventory, comprising five vowels (each short or long) and twenty-five consonants (divided into "hard", "neutral" and "soft" categories). Words may contain uncommon (or complicated) consonant clusters, including one consonant represented by the grapheme ř, or lack vowels altogether. Czech uses a simple orthography which phonologists have used as a model.
Contents
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1 Classification
2 History
2.1 Medieval/Old Czech
2.2 Early Modern Czech
2.3 Modern Czech
3 Geographic distribution
3.1 United States
4 Varieties
4.1 Common Czech
4.2 Bohemian dialects
4.3 Moravian dialects
4.4 Sample
4.5 Mutual intelligibility
5 Vocabulary
6 Standard Czech
6.1 Phonology
6.2 Grammar
6.2.1 Sentence and clause structure
6.2.2 Declension
6.2.3 Verb conjugation
6.3 Orthography
6.4 Sample text
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
Classification[edit]
Further information: Czech-Slovak languages and West Slavic
Classification of Czech within the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Czech and Slovak make up a "Czech–Slovak" subgroup.
Czech is a member of the West Slavic sub-branch of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. This branch includes Polish, Kashubian, Upper and Lower Sorbian and Slovak. Slovak is the closest language genetic neighbor of Czech, followed by Polish and Silesian.[11]
The West Slavic languages are spoken in Central Europe. Czech is distinguished from other West Slavic languages by a more-restricted distinction between "hard" and "soft" consonants (see Phonology below).[11]
History[edit]
The Bible of Kralice was the first complete translation of the Bible into the Czech language from the original languages. Its six volumes were first published between 1579 and 1593.
Main article: History of the Czech language
See also: History of the Czech lands
Medieval/Old Czech[edit]
The term "Old Czech" is applied to the period predating the 16th century, with the earliest records of the high medieval period also classified as "early Old Czech", but it is also possible to speak simply about "Medieval Czech".
Around the 7th century, the Slavic expansion reached Central Europe, settling on the eastern fringes of the Frankish Empire. The West Slavic polity of Great Moravia formed by the 9th century. The Christianization of Bohemia took place during the 9th and 10th centuries. The diversification of the Czech-Slovak group within West Slavic began around that time, marked among other things by its ephemeral use of the voiced velar fricative consonant (/ɣ/)[12] and consistent stress on the first syllable.[13]
The Bohemian (Czech) language is first recorded in writing in glosses and short notes during the 12th to 13th centuries. Literary works written in Czech appear in the early 14th century and administrative documents first appear towards the late 14th century. The first complete Bible translation also dates to this period.[14] Old Czech texts, including poetry and cookbooks, were produced outside the university as well.[15]
Literary activity becomes widespread in the early 15th century in the context of the Bohemian Reformation. Jan Hus contributed significantly to the standardization of Czech orthography, advocated for widespread literacy among Czech commoners (particularly in religion) and made early efforts to model written Czech after the spoken language.[14]
Early Modern Czech[edit]
There was no standardization distinguishing between Czech and Slovak prior to the 15th century.[16] In the 16th century, the division between Czech and Slovak becomes apparent, marking the confessional division between Lutheran Protestants in Slovakia using Czech orthography and Catholics, especially Slovak Jesuits, beginning to use a separate Slovak orthography based on the language of the Trnava region.
The publication of the Kralice Bible between 1579 and 1593 (the first complete Czech translation of the Bible from the original languages) became very important for standardization of the Czech language in the following centuries.
In 1615, the Bohemian diet tried to declare Czech to be the only official language of the kingdom. After the Bohemian Revolt (of predominantly Protestant aristocracy) which was defeated by the Habsburgs in 1620, the Protestant intellectuals had to leave the country. This emigration together with other consequences of the Thirty Years' War had a negative impact on the further use of the Czech language. In 1627, Czech and German became official languages of the Kingdom of Bohemia and in the 18th century German became dominant in Bohemia and Moravia, especially among the upper classes.[17]
Modern Czech[edit]
Josef Dobrovský, whose writing played a key role in reviving Czech as a written language
See also: Czech National Revival
The modern standard Czech language originates in standardization efforts of the 18th century.[18] By then the language had developed a literary tradition, and since then it has changed little; journals from that period have no substantial differences from modern standard Czech, and contemporary Czechs can understand them with little difficulty.[19] Changes include the morphological shift of í to ej and é to í (although é survives for some uses) and the merging of í and the former ejí.[20] Sometime before the 18th century, the Czech language abandoned a distinction between phonemic /l/ and /ʎ/ which survives in Slovak.[21]
Prohibition signs written in Czech, by entry #3 into the building of National Technical Library in Prague.
With the beginning of the national revival of the mid-18th century, Czech historians began to emphasize their people's accomplishments from the 15th through the 17th centuries, rebelling against the Counter-Reformation (the Habsburg re-catholization efforts which had denigrated Czech and other non-Latin languages).[22] Czech philologists studied sixteenth-century texts, advocating the return of the language to high culture.[23] This period is known as the Czech National Revival[24] (or Renaissance).[23]
During the national revival, in 1809 linguist and historian Josef Dobrovský released a German-language grammar of Old Czech entitled Ausführliches Lehrgebäude der böhmischen Sprache (Comprehensive Doctrine of the Bohemian Language). Dobrovský had intended his book to be descriptive, and did not think Czech had a realistic chance of returning as a major language. However, Josef Jungmann and other revivalists used Dobrovský's book to advocate for a Czech linguistic revival.[24] Changes during this time included spelling reform (notably, í in place of the former j and j in place of g), the use of t (rather than ti) to end infinitive verbs and the non-capitalization of nouns (which had been a late borrowing from German).[21] These changes differentiated Czech from Slovak.[25] Modern scholars disagree about whether the conservative revivalists were motivated by nationalism or considered contemporary spoken Czech unsuitable for formal, widespread use.[24]
Adherence to historical patterns was later relaxed and standard Czech adopted a number of features from Common Czech (a widespread, informal register), such as leaving some proper nouns undeclined. This has resulted in a relatively high level of homogeneity among all varieties of the language.[26]
Geographic distribution[edit]
A map of the languages of Central and Eastern Europe. Within the Czech Republic, Standard Czech is represented by dark yellow (C1) and Moravian dialects by medium yellow (C2) and light green (C3).
Official use of Czech in Vojvodina, Serbia
In 2005 and 2007, Czech was spoken by about 10 million residents of the Czech Republic.[17][27] A Eurobarometer survey conducted from January to March 2012 found that the first language of 98 percent of Czech citizens was Czech, the third-highest in the European Union (behind Greece and Hungary).[28]
Czech, the official language of the Czech Republic (a member of the European Union since 2004), is one of the EU's official languages and the 2012 Eurobarometer survey found that Czech was the foreign language most often used in Slovakia.[28] Economist Jonathan van Parys collected data on language knowledge in Europe for the 2012 European Day of Languages. The five countries with the greatest use of Czech were the Czech Republic (98.77 percent), Slovakia (24.86 percent), Portugal (1.93 percent), Poland (0.98 percent) and Germany (0.47 percent).[29]
Czech speakers in Slovakia primarily live in cities. Since it is a recognised minority language in Slovakia, Slovak citizens who speak only Czech may communicate with the government in their language to the extent that Slovak speakers in the Czech Republic may do so.[30]
United States[edit]
See also: Czech American and Czech Texan
Immigration of Czechs from Europe to the United States occurred primarily from 1848 to 1914. Czech is a Less Commonly Taught Language in U.S. schools, and is taught at Czech heritage centers. Large communities of Czech Americans live in the states of Texas, Nebraska and Wisconsin.[31] In the 2000 United States Census, Czech was reported as the most-common language spoken at home (besides English) in Valley, Butler and Saunders Counties, Nebraska and Republic County, Kansas. With the exception of Spanish (the non-English language most commonly spoken at home nationwide), Czech was the most-common home language in over a dozen additional counties in Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, North Dakota and Minnesota.[32] As of 2009, 70,500 Americans spoke Czech as their first language (49th place nationwide, behind Turkish and ahead of Swedish).[33]
Varieties[edit]
Further information: Czech-Slovak languages
The main vernacular is "Common Czech", based on the dialect of the Prague region. Other Bohemian dialects have become marginalized, while Moravian dialects remain more widespread, with a political movement for Moravian linguistic revival active since the 1990s.
Common Czech[edit]
The main Czech vernacular, spoken primarily near Prague but also throughout the country, is known as Common Czech (obecná čeština). This is an academic distinction; most Czechs are unaware of the term or associate it with vernacular (or incorrect) Czech.[34] Compared to standard Czech, Common Czech is characterized by simpler inflection patterns and differences in sound distribution.[35]
Common Czech has become ubiquitous in most parts of the Czech Republic since the later 20th century. It is usually defined as an interdialect used in common speech in Bohemia and western parts of Moravia (by about two thirds of all inhabitants of the Czech Republic). Common Czech is not codified, but some of its elements have become adopted in the written standard. Since the second half of the 20th century, Common Czech elements have also been spreading to regions previously unaffected, as a consequence of media influence. Standard Czech is still the norm for politicians, businesspeople and other Czechs in formal situations, but Common Czech is gaining ground in journalism and the mass media.[35]
Common Czech is characterized by quite regular differences from the standard morphology and phonology. These variations are more or less common to all Common Czech dialects:
é usually replaced by ý/í: malý město (small town), plamínek (little flame), lítat (to fly);
ý (sometimes also í) replaced by ej: malej dům (small house), mlejn (mill), plejtvat (to waste), bejt (to be) – as a consequence of the loss of the difference in the pronunciation of y/ý and i/í in the 15th century;
unified plural endings of adjectives: malý lidi (small people), malý ženy (small women), malý města (small towns) – stand.: malí lidé, malé ženy, malá města;
unified instrumental ending -ma in plural: s těma dobrejma lidma, ženama, chlapama, městama (with the good people, women, guys, towns) – stand.: s těmi dobrými lidmi, ženami, chlapy, městy (in essence, this form resembles the form of the dual, which was once a productive form, but now is almost extinct, except a few examples; in Common Czech it can often be used indiscriminately, i.e. it can substitute a regular plural form, not just as it was once used);
prothetic v- added to most words beginning o-: votevřít vokno (to open the window) – stand.: otevřít okno; but ovoce not *vovoce (fruit)
omitting of the syllabic -l in the masculine ending of past tense verbs: řek (he said), moh (he could), pích (he pricked) – stand.: řekl, mohl, píchl.
Example of declension (with the comparison with the standard Czech):
Masculine
animate
Masculine
inanimate
Feminine
Neuter
Sg.
Nominative
mladej člověk
mladý člověk mladej stát
mladý stát mladá žena
mladá žena mladý zvíře
mladé zvíře
Genitive
mladýho člověka
mladého člověka mladýho státu
mladého státu mladý ženy
mladé ženy mladýho zvířete
mladého zvířete
Dative
mladýmu člověkovi
mladému člověku mladýmu státu
mladému státu mladý ženě
mladé ženě mladýmu zvířeti
mladému zvířeti
Accusative
mladýho člověka
mladého člověka mladej stát
mladý stát mladou ženu
mladou ženu mladý zvíře
mladé zvíře
Vocative
mladej člověče!
mladý člověče! mladej státe!
mladý státe! mladá ženo!
mladá ženo! mladý zvíře!
mladé zvíře!
Locative
mladym člověkovi
mladém člověkovi mladym státě
mladém státě mladý ženě
mladé ženě mladym zvířeti
mladém zvířeti
Instrumental
mladym člověkem
mladým člověkem mladym státem
mladým státem mladou ženou
mladou ženou mladym zvířetem
mladým zvířetem
Pl.
Nominative
mladý lidi
mladí lidé mladý státy
mladé státy mladý ženy
mladé ženy mladý zvířata
mladá zvířata
Genitive
mladejch lidí
mladých lidí mladejch států
mladých států mladejch žen
mladých žen mladejch zvířat
mladých zvířat
Dative
mladejm lidem
mladým lidem mladejm státům
mladým státům mladejm ženám
mladým ženám mladejm zvířatům
mladým zvířatům
Accusative
mladý lidi
mladé lidi mladý státy
mladé státy mladý ženy
mladé ženy mladý zvířata
mladá zvířata
Vocative
mladý lidi!
mladí lidé! mladý státy!
mladé státy! mladý ženy!
mladé ženy! mladý zvířata!
mladá zvířata!
Locative
mladejch lidech
mladých lidech mladejch státech
mladých státech mladejch ženách
mladých ženách mladejch zvířatech
mladých zvířatech
Instrumental
mladejma lidma
mladými lidmi mladejma státama
mladými státy mladejma ženama
mladými ženami mladejma zvířatama
mladými zvířaty
mladý člověk – young man/person, mladí lidé – young people, mladý stát – young state, mladá žena – young woman, mladé zvíře – young animal
Bohemian dialects[edit]
Further information: Chod dialect
Apart from the Common Czech vernacular, there remain a variety of other Bohemian dialect, mostly in marginal rural areas. Dialect use began to weaken in the second half of the 20th century, and by the early 1990s dialect use was stigmatized, associated with the shrinking lower class and used in literature or other media for comedic effect. Increased travel and media availability to dialect-speaking populations has encouraged them to shift to (or add to their own dialect) standard Czech.[36] Although Czech has received considerable scholarly interest for a Slavic language, this interest has focused primarily on modern standard Czech and historical texts rather than dialects.[34]
The Czech Statistical Office in 2003 recognized the following Bohemian dialects:[37]
Nářečí středočeská (Central Bohemian dialects)
Nářečí jihozápadočeská (Southwestern Bohemian dialects)
Podskupina chodská (Chod subgroup)
Podskupina doudlebská (Doudleby subgroup)
Nářečí severovýchodočeská (Northeastern Bohemian dialects)
Podskupina podkrknošská (Krkonoše subgroup)
Moravian dialects[edit]
Main article: Moravian dialects
Further information: Lach dialects
The Czech dialects spoken in Moravia and Silesia are known as Moravian (moravština). In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, "Bohemian-Moravian-Slovak" was a language citizens could register as speaking (with German, Polish and several others).[38] Of the Czech dialects, only Moravian is distinguished in nationwide surveys by the Czech Statistical Office. As of 2011, 62,908 Czech citizens spoke Moravian as their first language and 45,561 were diglossal (speaking Moravian and standard Czech as first languages).[39]
Beginning in the sixteenth century, some varieties of Czech resembled Slovak;[16] the southeastern Moravian dialects, in particular, are sometimes considered dialects of Slovak rather than Czech. These dialects form a continuum between the Czech and Slovak languages,[40] using the same declension patterns for nouns and pronouns and the same verb conjugations as Slovak.[41]
The Czech Statistical Office in 2003 recognized the following Moravian dialects:[37]
Nářečí českomoravská (Bohemian–Moravian dialects)
Nářečí středomoravská (Central Moravian dialects)
Podskupina tišnovská (Tišnov subgroup)
Nářečí východomoravská (Eastern Moravian dialects)
Podskupina slovácká (Moravian Slovak subgroup)
Podskupina valašská (Moravian Wallachian subgroup)
Nářečí slezská (Silesian dialects)
Sample[edit]
In a 1964 textbook on Czech dialectology, Břetislav Koudela used the following sentence to highlight phonetic differences between dialects:[42]
Standard Czech: Dej mouku ze mlýna na vozík.
Common Czech: Dej mouku ze mlejna na vozejk.
Central Moravian: Dé móku ze mléna na vozék.
Eastern Moravian: Daj múku ze młýna na vozík.
Silesian: Daj muku ze młyna na vozik.
Slovak: Daj múku z mlyna na vozík.
English: Put the flour from the mill into the cart.
Mutual intelligibility[edit]
Further information: Comparison of Slovak and Czech
Czech and Slovak have been considered mutually intelligible; speakers of either language can communicate with greater ease than those of any other pair of West Slavic languages. Since the 1993 dissolution of Czechoslovakia, mutual intelligibility has declined for younger speakers, probably because Czech speakers now experience less exposure to Slovak and vice versa.[43]
In phonetic differences, Czech is characterized by a glottal stop before initial vowels and Slovak by its less-frequent use of long vowels than Czech;[44] however, Slovak has long forms of the consonants r and l when they function as vowels.[45] Phonemic differences between the two languages are generally consistent, typical of two dialects of a language. Grammatically, although Czech (unlike Slovak) has a vocative case,[44] both languages share a common syntax.[16]
One study showed that Czech and Slovak lexicons differed by 80 percent, but this high percentage was found to stem primarily from differing orthographies and slight inconsistencies in morphological formation;[46] Slovak morphology is more regular (when changing from the nominative to the locative case, Praha becomes Praze in Czech and Prahe in Slovak). The two lexicons are generally considered similar, with most differences found in colloquial vocabulary and some scientific terminology. Slovak has slightly more borrowed words than Czech.[16]
The similarities between Czech and Slovak led to the languages being considered a single language by a group of 19th-century scholars who called themselves "Czechoslavs" (Čechoslované), believing that the peoples were connected in a way which excluded German Bohemians and (to a lesser extent) Hungarians and other Slavs.[47] During the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938), although "Czechoslovak" was designated as the republic's official language, both Czech and Slovak written standards were used. Standard written Slovak was partially modeled on literary Czech, and Czech was preferred for some official functions in the Slovak half of the republic. Czech influence on Slovak was protested by Slovak scholars, and when Slovakia broke off from Czechoslovakia in 1938 as the Slovak State (which then aligned with Nazi Germany in World War II), literary Slovak was deliberately distanced from Czech. When the Axis powers lost the war and Czechoslovakia reformed, Slovak developed somewhat on its own (with Czech influence); during the Prague Spring of 1968, Slovak gained independence from (and equality with) Czech,[16] due to the transformation of Czechoslovakia from a unitary state to a federation. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, "Czechoslovak" has referred to improvised pidgins of the languages which have arisen from the decrease in mutual intelligibility.[48]
Vocabulary[edit]
See also: List of English words of Czech origin
Czech vocabulary derives primarily from Slavic, Baltic and other Indo-European roots. Although most verbs have Balto-Slavic origins, pronouns, prepositions and some verbs have wider, Indo-European roots.[49] Some loanwords have been restructured by folk etymology to resemble native Czech words (hřbitov, "graveyard" and listina, "list").[50]
Most Czech loanwords originated in one of two time periods. Earlier loanwords, primarily from German,[51] Greek and Latin,[52] arrived before the Czech National Revival. More recent loanwords derive primarily from English and French,[51] and also from Hebrew, Arabic and Persian. Many Russian loanwords, principally animal names and naval terms, also exist in Czech.[53]
Although older German loanwords were colloquial, recent borrowings from other languages are associated with high culture.[51] During the nineteenth century, words with Greek and Latin roots were rejected in favor of those based on older Czech words and common Slavic roots; "music" is muzyka in Polish and музыка (muzyka) in Russian, but in Czech it is hudba.[52] Some Czech words have been borrowed as loanwords into English and other languages—for example, robot (from robota, "labor")[54] and polka (from polka, "Polish woman" or from "půlka" "half").[55]
Standard Czech[edit]
The modern written standard is directly based on the standardisation during the Czech National Revival in the 1830s, significantly influenced by Josef Jungmann's Czech-German dictionary published during 1834–1839. Jungmann used vocabulary of the Bible of Kralice (1579–1613) period and of the language used by his contemporaries. He borrowed words not present in Czech from other Slavic languages or created neologisms.[56]
Phonology[edit]
Main article: Czech phonology
Czech contains ten basic vowel phonemes, and three more found only in loanwords. They are /a/, /ɛ/, /ɪ/, /o/, and /u/, their long counterparts /aː/, /ɛː/, /iː/, /oː/ and /uː/, and three diphthongs, /ou̯/, /au̯/ and /ɛu̯/. The latter two diphthongs and the long /oː/ are exclusive to loanwords.[57] Vowels are never reduced to schwa sounds when unstressed.[58] Each word usually has primary stress on its first syllable, except for enclitics (minor, monosyllabic, unstressed syllables). In all words of more than two syllables, every odd-numbered syllable receives secondary stress. Stress is unrelated to vowel length, and the possibility of stressed short vowels and unstressed long vowels can be confusing to students whose native language combines the features (such as English).[59]
Voiced consonants with unvoiced counterparts are unvoiced at the end of a word, or when they are followed by unvoiced consonants.[60] Czech consonants are categorized as "hard", "neutral" or "soft":
Hard: /d/, /ɡ/, /ɦ/, /k/, /n/, /r/, /t/, /x/
Neutral: /b/, /f/, /l/, /m/, /p/, /s/, /v/, /z/
Soft: /c/, /ɟ/, /j/, /ɲ/, /r̝/, /ʃ/, /ts/, /tʃ/, /ʒ/
This distinction describes the declension patterns of nouns, which is based on the category of a noun's ending consonant. Hard consonants may not be followed by i or í in writing, or soft ones by y or ý (except in loanwords such as kilogram).[61] Neutral consonants may take either character. Hard consonants are sometimes known as "strong", and soft ones as "weak".[62]
The phoneme represented by the letter ř (capital Ř) is considered unique to Czech.[63] It represents the raised alveolar non-sonorant trill (IPA: [r̝]), a sound somewhere between Czech's r and ž (example: "řeka" (river) (help·info)),[63] and is present in Dvořák.
The consonants /r/ and /l/ can be syllabic, acting as syllable nuclei in place of a vowel. This can be difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce, and Strč prst skrz krk ("Stick [your] finger down [your] throat") is a Czech tongue twister.[64]
Consonants
Labial
Alveolar
Post-
alveolar
Palatal
Velar
Glottal
Nasal
m n ɲ
Plosive
voiceless
p t c k
voiced
b d ɟ (ɡ)
Affricate
voiceless
t͡s t͡ʃ
voiced
(d͡z) (d͡ʒ)
Fricative
voiceless
(f) s ʃ x
voiced
v z ʒ ɦ
Trill
plain
r
fricative
r̝
Approximant
l j
Vowels
A Czech vowel chart
Grammar[edit]
Slavic grammar is fusional; its nouns, verbs, and adjectives are inflected by phonological processes to modify their meanings and grammatical functions, and the easily separable affixes characteristic of agglutinative languages are limited.[65] Slavic-language inflection is complex and pervasive, inflecting for case, gender and number in nouns and tense, aspect, mood, person and subject number and gender in verbs.[66]
Parts of speech include adjectives, adverbs, numbers, interrogative words, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections.[67] Adverbs are primarily formed by taking the final ý or í of an adjective and replacing it with e, ě, or o.[68] Negative statements are formed by adding the affix ne- to the verb of a clause, with one exception: je (he, she or it is) becomes není.[69]
Sentence and clause structure[edit]
See also: Czech word order
Czech pronouns, nominative case
Person
Singular
Plural
1.
já my
2.
ty
vy (formal) vy
3.
on (masculine)
ona (feminine)
ono (neuter) oni (masculine)
ony (feminine)
ona (neuter)
Because Czech uses grammatical case to convey word function in a sentence (instead of relying on word order, as English does), its word order is flexible. As a pro-drop language, in Czech an intransitive sentence can consist of only a verb; information about its subject is encoded in the verb.[70] Enclitics (primarily auxiliary verbs and pronouns) must appear in the second syntactic slot of a sentence, after the first stressed unit. The first slot must contain a subject and object, a main form of a verb, an adverb or a conjunction (except for the light conjunctions a, "and", i, "and even" or ale, "but").[71]
Czech syntax has a subject–verb–object sentence structure. In practice, however, word order is flexible and used for topicalization and focus. Although Czech has a periphrastic passive construction (like English), colloquial word-order changes frequently produce the passive voice. For example, to change "Peter killed Paul" to "Paul was killed by Peter" the order of subject and object is inverted: Petr zabil Pavla ("Peter killed Paul") becomes "Paul, Peter killed" (Pavla zabil Petr). Pavla is in the accusative case, the grammatical object (in this case, the victim) of the verb.[72]
A word at the end of a clause is typically emphasized, unless an upward intonation indicates that the sentence is a question:[73]
Pes jí bagetu. – The dog eats the baguette (rather than eating something else).
Bagetu jí pes. – The dog eats the baguette (rather than someone else doing so).
Pes bagetu jí. – The dog eats the baguette (rather than doing something else to it).
Jí pes bagetu? – Does the dog eat the baguette? (emphasis ambiguous)
In portions of Bohemia (including Prague), questions such as Jí pes bagetu? without an interrogative word (such as co, "what" or kdo, "who") are intoned in a slow rise from low to high, quickly dropping to low on the last word or phrase.[74]
In Czech syntax, adjectives precede nouns.[75] Relative clauses are introduced by relativizers such as the adjective který, analogous to the English relative pronouns "which", "that", "who" and "whom". As with other adjectives, it is declined into the appropriate case (see Declension below) to match its associated noun, person and number. Relative clauses follow the noun they modify, and the following is a glossed example:[76]
Czech: Chc-i navštív-it univerzit-u, na kter-ou chod-í Jan.
Gloss: want-1.SG visit-INF university-SG.ACC, on which-SG.F.ACC attend-3.SG John.SG.NOM
English: I want to visit the university that John attends.
Declension[edit]
Main article: Czech declension
In Czech, nouns and adjectives are declined into one of seven grammatical cases. Nouns are inflected to indicate their use in a sentence. A nominative–accusative language, Czech marks subject nouns with nominative case and object nouns with accusative case. The genitive case marks possessive nouns and some types of movement. The remaining cases (instrumental, locative, vocative and dative) indicate semantic relationships, such as secondary objects, movement or position (dative case) and accompaniment (instrumental case). An adjective's case agrees with that of the noun it describes. When Czech children learn their language's declension patterns, the cases are referred to by number:[77]
No.
Ordinal name (Czech)
Full name (Czech)
Case
Main usage
1. první pád nominativ nominative Subjects
2. druhý pád genitiv genitive Belonging, movement away from something (or someone)
3. třetí pád dativ dative Indirect objects, movement toward something (or someone)
4. čtvrtý pád akuzativ accusative Direct objects
5. pátý pád vokativ vocative Addressing someone
6. šestý pád lokál locative Location
7. sedmý pád instrumentál instrumental Being used for a task; acting with someone (or something)
Some Czech grammatical texts order the cases differently, grouping the nominative and accusative (and the dative and locative) together because those declension patterns are often identical; this order accommodates learners with experience in other inflected languages, such as Latin or Russian. This order is nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental and vocative.[77]
Some prepositions require the nouns they modify to take a particular case. The cases assigned by each preposition are based on the physical (or metaphorical) direction, or location, conveyed by it. For example, od (from, away from) and z (out of, off) assign the genitive case. Other prepositions take one of several cases, with their meaning dependent on the case; na means "onto" or "for" with the accusative case, but "on" with the locative.[78]
Examples of declension patterns (using prepositions) for a few nouns with adjectives follow. Only one plural example is given, since plural declension patterns are similar across genders.
Case
Noun/adjective
Big dog (m.) Small cat (f.) Hard wood (n.) Young dragons (pl.)
Nom.
velký pes
(big dog) malá kočka
(small cat) tvrdé dřevo
(hard wood) mladí draci
(young dragons)
Gen.
z velkého psa
(from the big dog) z malé kočky
(from the small cat) z tvrdého dřeva
(from the hard wood) z mladých draků
(from the young dragons)
Dat.
k velkému psovi
(to the big dog) k malé kočce
(to the small cat) ke tvrdému dřevu
(to the hard wood) ke mladým drakům
(to the young dragons)
Acc.
na velkého psa
(for the big dog) na malou kočku
(for the small cat) na tvrdé dřevo
(for the hard wood) na mladé draky
(for the young dragons)
Voc.
velký pse!
(big dog!) malá kočko!
(small cat!) tvrdé dřevo!
(hard wood!) mladí draci!
(young dragons!)
Loc.
o velkém psovi
(about the big dog) o malé kočce
(about the small cat) o tvrdém dřevě
(about the hard wood) o mladých dracích
(about the young dragons)
Ins.
s velkým psem
(with the big dog) s malou kočkou
(with the small cat) s tvrdým dřevem
(with the hard wood) s mladými draky
(with the young dragons)
This is a glossed example of a sentence using several cases:
Czech: Nes-l js-em krabic-i do dom-u se sv-ým přítel-em.
Gloss: carry-SG.M.PST be-1.SG box-SG.ACC into house-SG.GEN with own-SG.INS friend-SG.INS
English: I carried the box into the house with my friend.
Czech distinguishes three genders—masculine, feminine, and neuter—and the masculine gender is subdivided into animate and inanimate. With few exceptions, feminine nouns in the nominative case end in -a, -e, or -ost; neuter nouns in -o, -e, or -í, and masculine nouns in a consonant.[79] Adjectives agree in gender and animacy (for masculine nouns in the accusative or genitive singular and the nominative plural) with the nouns they modify.[80] The main effect of gender in Czech is the difference in noun and adjective declension, but other effects include past-tense verb endings: for example, dělal (he did, or made); dělala (she did, or made) and dělalo (it did, or made).[81]
Nouns are also inflected for number, distinguishing between singular and plural. Typical of a Slavic language, Czech cardinal numbers one through four allow the nouns and adjectives they modify to take any case, but numbers over five place these nouns and adjectives in the genitive case when the entire expression is in nominative or accusative case. The Czech koruna is an example of this feature; it is shown here as the subject of a hypothetical sentence, and declined as genitive for numbers five and up.[82]
English
Czech
one crown jedna koruna
two crowns dvě koruny
three crowns tři koruny
four crowns čtyři koruny
five crowns pět korun
Numerical words decline for case and, for numbers one and two, for gender. Numbers one through five are shown below as examples, and have some of the most exceptions among Czech numbers. The number one has declension patterns identical to those of the demonstrative pronoun, to.[83][84]
1
2
3
4
5
Nominative
jeden (male)
jedna (female)
jedno (neuter) dva (male)
dvě (female, neuter) tři čtyři pět
Genitive
jednoho (male)
jedné (female)
jednoho (neuter) dvou tří čtyř pěti
Dative
jednomu (male)
jedné (female)
jednomu (neuter) dvěma třem čtyřem pěti
Accusative
jednoho (male an.)
jeden (male in.)
jednu (female)
jedno (neuter) dva (male)
dvě (female, neuter) tři čtyři pět
Locative
jednom (male)
jedné (female)
jednom (neuter) dvou třech čtyřech pěti
Instrumental
jedním (male)
jednou (female)
jedním (neuter) dvěma třemi čtyřmi pěti
Although Czech's grammatical numbers are singular and plural, several residuals of dual forms remain. Some nouns for paired body parts use a historical dual form to express plural in some cases: ruka (hand)—ruce (nominative); noha (leg)—nohama (instrumental), nohou (genitive/locative); oko (eye)—oči, and ucho (ear)—uši. While two of these nouns are neuter in their singular forms, all plural forms are considered feminine; their gender is relevant to their associated adjectives and verbs.[85] These forms are plural semantically, used for any non-singular count, as in mezi čtyřma očima (face to face, lit. among four eyes). The plural number paradigms of these nouns are actually a mixture of historical dual and plural forms. For example, nohy (legs; nominative/accusative) is a standard plural form of this type of noun.
Verb conjugation[edit]
Main articles: Czech conjugation and Morphological classification of Czech verbs
Czech verb conjugation is less complex than noun and adjective declension because it codes for fewer categories. Verbs agree with their subjects in person (first, second or third) and number (singular or plural), and are conjugated for tense (past, present or future). For example, the conjugated verb mluvíme (we speak) is in the present tense and first-person plural; it is distinguished from other conjugations of the infinitive mluvit by its ending, me.[86]
See also: Grammatical aspect in Slavic languages
Typical of Slavic languages, Czech marks its verbs for one of two grammatical aspects: perfective and imperfective. Most verbs are part of inflected aspect pairs—for example, koupit (perfective) and kupovat (imperfective). Although the verbs' meaning is similar, in perfective verbs the action is completed and in imperfective verbs it is ongoing. This is distinct from past and present tense,[87] and any Czech verb of either aspect can be conjugated into any of its three tenses.[86] Aspect describes the state of the action at the time specified by the tense.[87]
The verbs of most aspect pairs differ in one of two ways: by prefix or by suffix. In prefix pairs, the perfective verb has an added prefix—for example, the imperfective psát (to write, to be writing) compared with the perfective napsat (to write down, to finish writing). The most common prefixes are na-, o-, po-, s-, u-, vy-, z- and za-.[88] In suffix pairs, a different infinitive ending is added to the perfective stem; for example, the perfective verbs koupit (to buy) and prodat (to sell) have the imperfective forms kupovat and prodávat.[89] Imperfective verbs may undergo further morphology to make other imperfective verbs (iterative and frequentative forms), denoting repeated or regular action. The verb jít (to go) has the iterative form chodit (to go repeatedly) and the frequentative form chodívat (to go regularly).[90]
Many verbs have only one aspect, and verbs describing continual states of being—být (to be), chtít (to want), moct (to be able to), ležet (to lie down, to be lying down)—have no perfective form. Conversely, verbs describing immediate states of change—for example, otěhotnět (to become pregnant) and nadchnout se (to become enthusiastic)—have no imperfective aspect.[91]
Although Czech's use of present and future tense is largely similar to that of English, the language uses past tense to represent the English present perfect and past perfect; ona běžela could mean she ran, she has run or she had run.[92]
Conjugation of být in future tense
Person
Singular
Plural
1.
budu budeme
2.
budeš budete
3.
bude budou
In some contexts, Czech's perfective present (which differs from the English present perfect) implies future action; in others, it connotes habitual action.[93] As a result, the language has a proper future tense to minimize ambiguity. The future tense does not involve conjugating the verb describing an action to be undertaken in the future; instead, the future form of být (as shown in the table at left) is placed before the infinitive (for example, budu jíst—"I will eat").[94]
This conjugation is not followed by být itself, so future-oriented expressions involving nouns, adjectives, or prepositions (rather than verbs) omit být. "I will be happy" is translated as Budu šťastný (not Budu být šťastný).[94]
Conditional form of koupit (to buy)
Person
Singular
Plural
1.
koupil/a bych koupili/y bychom
2.
koupil/a bys koupili/y byste
3.
koupil/a/o by koupili/y/a by
The infinitive form ends in t (archaically, ti). It is the form found in dictionaries and the form that follows auxiliary verbs (for example, můžu tě slyšet—"I can hear you").[95] Czech verbs have three grammatical moods: indicative, imperative and conditional.[96] The imperative mood adds specific endings for each of three person (or number) categories: -Ø/-i/-ej for second-person singular, -te/-ete/-ejte for second-person plural and -me/-eme/-ejme for first-person plural.[97] The conditional mood is formed with a particle after the past-tense verb. This mood indicates possible events, expressed in English as "I would" or "I wish".[98]
Most Czech verbs fall into one of five classes, which determine their conjugation patterns. The future tense of být would be classified as a Class I verb because of its endings. Examples of the present tense of each class and some common irregular verbs follow in the tables below:[99]
Class I
Class II
Class III
Class IV
Class V
Definition
to carry to print to wander to suffer to do, to make
Infinitive
nést tisknout putovat trpět dělat
1st p. sg.
nesu tisknu putuji trpím dělám
2nd p. sg.
neseš tiskneš putuješ trpíš děláš
3rd p. sg.
nese tiskne putuje trpí dělá
1st p. pl.
neseme tiskneme putujeme trpíme děláme
2nd p. pl.
nesete tisknete putujete trpíte děláte
3rd p. pl.
nesou tisknou putují trpí dělají
Irregular verbs
Definition
to be to want to eat to know
Infinitive
být chtít jíst vědět
1st p. sg.
jsem chci jím vím
2nd p. sg.
jsi chceš jíš víš
3rd p. sg.
je chce jí ví
1st p. pl.
jsme chceme jíme víme
2nd p. pl.
jste chcete jíte víte
3rd p. pl.
jsou chtějí jedí vědí
Orthography[edit]
The handwritten Czech alphabet
Main article: Czech orthography
See also: Czech Braille
Czech has one of the most phonemic orthographies of all European languages. Its thirty-one graphemes represent thirty sounds (in most dialects, i and y have the same sound), and it contains only one digraph: ch, which follows h in the alphabet.[100] As a result, some of its characters have been used by phonologists to denote corresponding sounds in other languages. The characters q, w and x appear only in foreign words.[101] The háček (ˇ) is used with certain letters to form new characters: š, ž, and č, as well as ň, ě, ř, ť, and ď (the latter five uncommon outside Czech). The last two letters are sometimes written with a comma above (ʼ, an abbreviated háček) because of their height.[102] The character ó exists only in loanwords and onomatopoeia.[103]
Unlike most European languages, Czech distinguishes vowel length; long vowels are indicated by an acute accent or, occasionally with ů, a ring. Long u is usually written ú at the beginning of a word or morpheme (úroda, neúrodný) and ů elsewhere,[104] except for loanwords (skútr) or onomatopoeia (bú).[105] Long vowels and ě are not considered separate letters.[106]
Czech typographical features not associated with phonetics generally resemble those of most Latin European languages, including English. Proper nouns, honorifics, and the first letters of quotations are capitalized, and punctuation is typical of other Latin European languages. Writing of ordinal numerals is similar to most European languages. The Czech language uses a decimal comma instead of a decimal point. When writing a long number, spaces between every three numbers (e.g. between hundreds and thousands) may be used for better orientation in handwritten texts, but not in decimal places, like in English. The number 1,234,567.8910 may be written as 1234567,8910 or 1 234 567,8910. Ordinal numbers (1st) use a point as in German (1.). In proper noun phrases (except personal names), only the first word is capitalized (Pražský hrad, Prague Castle).[107][108]
Sample text[edit]
1846 sample of printed Czech
According to Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Czech: Všichni lidé se rodí svobodní a sobě rovní co do důstojnosti a práv. Jsou nadáni rozumem a svědomím a mají spolu jednat v duchu bratrství.[109]
English: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."[110]
See also[edit]
Czech Republic portal
Language portal
Czech Centers
Czech name
Czech Sign Language
Swadesh list of Slavic words
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