Recently, I came across somebody who wanted to learn about the different endings in Czech. I remember that different 'pady' had different saying to help with the endings such as ' prvni pad - kdo co, druhy pad - bez koho ceho..Unfortunately, these are the only two I could remember. Can somebody refresh my memory?
When I was in school we learned the cases as interrogative phrases, each case with a preposition that's typical for it (except of course the accusative, which goes only with verbs, and the nominative and vocative, which always only go on their own). For some reason this makes them easier to remember, at least to a native speaker: nominative: kdo? co? who? what? genitive: bez koho? bez čeho? without whom? without what? dative: ke komu? k čemu? to whom? to what? accusative: vidím koho? vidím co? I see who? I see what? vocative: oslovujeme, voláme addressing, calling locative: o kom? o čem? about whom? about what? instrumental: s kým? s čím? with whom? with what? Even decades later I can still rattle these off from memory, without having to think Is this what you were looking for?
