Dear group members Am so interested in Czech language and its grammatical cases; one of the most challenging topics for me is how the possessive pronoun svůj is used , and its different grammatical cases , can any one help to simplify it Thanks
Hello! Can you please be more specific as to what exactly you'd like explained about the pronoun "svůj"? You've probably found the grammatical cases listed somewhere (svůj, svého, svému...). What can I try to explain?
Thanks for your response What confuses me the most is ( svůj) on the accusative case . What I understood is that ( Svůj) is used when the ( subject) or doer is doing action towards someone or something related to him I need to know if my understanding is correct And if it’s correct; how (Svůj) should be in accusative case . For e.g. sometimes I expect it should be ( sveho) and it is ( své) .. thanks alot and your response is appreciated
Svůj is a possessive pronoun just like můj, tvůj, náš, etc. What's different about svůj is that it is a reflexive pronoun and relates to the self (myself, himself, themselves...) in the sense of "my own", "his own", etc. For example, you can say musím dokončit svou práci (I have to finish my work), musíš dokončit svou práci (you have to finish your work), musíme dokončit svou práci (we have to finish our work). It wouldn’t be a big mistake if you simply used mou, tvou, naši in those instances (and you’ll see that mistake made quite often by Czech speakers) but technically, you should use svůj. The declension of svůj / svá / své / svoje is the same as můj / má / mé / moje or tvůj / tvá / tvé / tvoje. Below are the declension forms for the masculine, feminine, and neuter genders in SINGULAR. Masculine: SVŮJ 1. svůj 2. svého 3. svému 4. svůj (used with an inanimate object, e.g. “dům”) x svého (used with an animate object, e.g. “syna”) 5. svůj 6. svém 7. svým Feminine: SVÁ or SVOJE (these are more or less interchangeable) 1. svá / svoje 2. své / svojí 3. své / svojí 4. svou / svoji 5. svá / svoje 6. své / svojí 7. svou / svojí Neuter: SVÉ or SVOJE (also more or less interchangeable) 1. své / svoje 2. svého 3. svému 4. své / svoje 5. své / svoje 6. svém 7. svým In PLURAL, all the cases are the same for all the genders except for the nominative and accusative: 1. Masculine (inanimate object, e.g. “domy”): SVÉ / SVOJE Masculine (animate object, e.g. “synové”): SVÍ / SVOJI Feminine: SVÉ / SVOJE Neuter: SVÁ / SVOJE 2. svých 3. svým 4. Masculine and feminine: své / svoje Neuter: svá / svoje 5. same as the nominative for each gender 6. svých 7. svými Let me know if the above was helpful and if you need any clarifications. I'll be happy to explain further.
Wow , it couldn’t be better Am really so thankful for your help , and really I appreciate your kindness Děkuji mockrát
