Are you talking in spoken or written Czech??/ Mluvite hovorovou anebo psanou cestinou??
It’s kind of embarrassing but the most common Czech words are :
- voni ( the colloqial “oni” meaning “they”)
- proste (colloquial “right”)
- teda (”well”)
- bejt (the colloquial “byt” meaning “to be”)
Do they not look familiar to you? That is because they are used in spoken Czech. So unless you have the Dictionary of Spoken Czech near by you are pretty much left guessing to what those words might mean. Profesor Cermak, the creator of one of the above mentioned dictionaries, recorded in his research sample speeches by over 500 people and discovered that the spoken Czech uses huge number demonstrative pronouns such as “that”, “there”, “here”, “that” as well as the pronoun “I”. Also particles such as “vzdyt”, “no”, “aby”, “ze jo” (”after all”, “well”, “right”..) are very common through which we express our +/- attitudes, expectations or doubts.
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