Czech language course notes

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Purpose of these materials

This material was produced to consolidate all of the czech grammar at one place. It aims to give compact overall notion of the most crutial grammatical concepts without mixing up any exercises, pictures, listenings or any other burden as contemporary "everything at one place" textbooks tend to do. The grammar in these textbooks is then scattered all over the place and is not easily accesible. These course notes are here to be the exact opposite.

The grammar on these pages is not complete and will never be. Since the language is always evolving and it's impossible to capture all of it's grammatical rules including all the edge cases that may occur. However it gives (I hope and believe) a very grasp on the most crutial topics acquiring the very most of what you need to know to speak decent Czech.

Preliminaries

The text supposes that the reader is familair with basic linguistic concepts. The list of terms that you should know before reading this text is bellow. If you don't know any of these feel free to ask you favorite A.I. assistant for an explanation.

  • syntax
  • subject, (direct) object, undirect object
  • auxiliary verb
  • prefix, suffix
  • root, stem
  • 1./2./3. person and singular/plural terminology

More profound linguistical concepts will be used as well, however brief explanation will be provided every time, so you don't need to worry.

Background of these materials

This material is very openly Pragocentric meaning that special attention is being paid to the Prague dialect and it's particularities. The other varieties of czech are then often being refered to as some bizarre people things say in small villages such as Brno.