Cesky sesit ma tuhle vetu v dialogu. Stepove pokoje ma rozbite okno, a nemam cas ho spravit. My question---Why is the pronoun "ho" used instead of "to"? Okno is neuter. Thanks
It is a grammatical mistake, very common in spoken Czech. Correct Czech is Štěpův pokoj má rozbité okno a nemám čas je spravit. You are right, okno is neuter (declension pattern město) and the accusative case of the appropriate personal pronoun ono is je.
Thanks Jana Stepovo okno je rozbite, a jja nemam cas je spravit. Does that sound bookish? Pouzival by to obycejny cech? I didn't know ono had it's own accusative pronouns.
Scrimshaw, you can use the variant with "to", it's also correct, only the meaning is slightly different (roughly "that" vs "it"). Štěpův pokoj má rozbité okno, a nemám čas to spravit.
"Obyčejný" Čech by to použil, kdyby si to ze školy pamatoval :wink: . It does not sound bookish, it is just grammatically correct. BTW, every noun can be replaced by a corresponding pronoun - personal or demonstrative - and both are declined, i.e. if the noun is in accusative case, so is the pronoun replacing it.
Thanks you guys. It's a big help having a resource such as this. You know what would be kind of fun? A joke topic. V zime. Proc Pendolino stoji zas kdesi gu Polemy. Protoze jak kazdy rok mrzli mu vsecky cd romy. Ukradl jsem to od Provakatery Nohavice. Od jeho velmi hezke pisnicky "Ladovska Zima".
Don't mention it. On the contrary, you can help us with English :wink:. Is it appropriate to address us with "guys"? (Jana is female and I wrote just two or three lines) Yes, that's very funny song. Do you understand what it's about? It must be extremely challenging for you, because it's in dialect (it takes a lot of self control to no to correct "zamrzli" to "zamrzly") and you need to know a lot of Czech realities.
Mas pravdu. Zamrzly. Ano, znam tu pisnicku, kamaradka v Ceske Republice mi poslala, a vysvetlovala mi vyrazy a tak. Yes you can use "guys" when referring to a group of males and females, just females or just males. Slangish, not grammatically correct.
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