I am currently learning Czech and I must say your video was terrific help to brush up on my old grammar lessons :-D Great French accent by the way! I was genuinely impressed by the way you said "complément d'objet indirect". I would say you either have French relatives or have lived in France and studied French for many years :-)
Ahoj Diogène, I'm happy this video was so useful to watch! 💪🤗 Are you getting back to Czech after a couple of years? You are right, you have a very good ear 👂😀 I lived in France for 5 years and have been speaking French daily for almost 10 years now. So nothing surprising 😌 Eliška
There are 6 cases in Latin, but there are also a 7th case (kinda...) the locative case which is limited to a few words and names of the cities, like domi (at home or in peace), humi (in the soil), Romae (in Rome), Athenis (in Athens) etc...
Moc zajímavé video. Jsem rakouský soused a bohužel máme 4 cases. Ale THE WORD ORDER je důležitý, především u krátkých vět. Například máme jenom jednu možnost říci, že kočička telefonuje pejska: Die Katze ruft den Hund an.
my native language also has cases but i didn't know it had cases because i was just using it. it was when i started learning russian i realised what cases were
Hey Ami, of course! --1-- Firstly, know that even if you are chosing the incorrect ending, we understand you. Wrong case/wrong ending doesnt change the meaning of what you are saying (which is not the same as with verbs). --2-- Secondly, you need to learn them gradually, meaning that it can take you 6 months or 10 months or 2 years to master them, because simply you will not hurry and your brain will have enough time to get used to the ending in this particular situation. --3--Thirdly, learn them in context + create your own model sentences that you like. Example for accusative feminine sigular ending with -a: "Miluju zmrzlinu" and than you will want to say "I hate school" do you have "školu" or I thank for love "děkuju za lásku". Etc. --4-- Eventually, even Czech people do not use the correct endings, so dont be too hard on yourself :-D :-D (y)
Eliska SlowCZECH Thank you for your reply! So do you think it’s better to memorize the declensions by tables or by reading and listening a lot and get the patterns unconsciously? which way do you think is better in order to get them as fast as possible?
@@ami0362 well it depends on many aspects. but mostly on your motivation and if you like learning by heart and if this works for you. it does for some people. but for most of the students work hearing and reading and saying it 1000x. You would never say Dobrou den / or Jednu pivem prosím.
And how much do you need them? Maybe you can live without them ;-) Many of the students dont really need them if they get enough of the input (listening, watching, reading) :-) Eliška
@@slowczech Děkuji vám za vaši odpověď :-) Very few of them come natural sometimes without thinking about it when i try to speak (thinking wouldn't help anyway since i don't know the theory behind it). I have tried to learn a few cases in the past but it was too overwelming for me personally. I've been just sticking with learning new words, watching czech tv, reading texts which are not too complicated and listen to alot of real life conversations. But I am determined to learn them once I feel like I'm ready! :-) 99% of the people in my environment only speak Czech, which gives me great daily exposure to the language. I can express myself very basic, but as i always say to my conversation partner: Mluvím trochu český. Znám hodně slovo, ale nemám lepídlo dělat správné věty a konversace.
@@andreash3906 My partner is a foreigner. He has never known what those cases are and what they are good for. Yet, he makes phone calls in Czech (vet car service...), he gets angry at a non professional assistant in the hospital in Czech, etc. I disagree that it is necessary to need learn the cases. Of course, 90% of the students want to learn them. That's why this simple video. But as Stephen Krashen says, getting enough exposure and input, as you have, is crucial for a successful language acquisition. So you are doing it great! Just continue. Kids need years. Why would adult need just 2 or 3 years? Zdravím z Brna. A myslím, že máš dobre lepidlo na slova. Úsměv a gestikulace stačí. Postupně to bude lepší a lepší! 👏👏👏
Zuzana moc miluje Lukáše - normal description of the situation. Lukáše moc miluje Zuzana - let's say, two friends are talking about third one of them Zuzana miluje Lukáše moc - imagine little sister revealing 'The big secret!'
Great video like always, but.....Genitiv is explained in a way that can’t be found in the normal declension tables where it would be “to je Auto (of) maminky”. Instead you use the declension of the possessive adjective maminčino or krokodýlova. Both is nominative. 2nd little thing: šalina is (according to my friends and the fact that it’s not in my dictionaries) only used in Brno. 🤣
🤣🤣 Yes! Very good points, Stefan! You are right about the possessive adjectives. Personally, I hate using genitive for possesion - but I tell it to my students because Czech people say it normally - so I replace "maminky auto" by "maminčino auto" which sounds better to me and sticks better to this English logic. But yes, you are certainly right, it is an adjective and I hope it will not be confusing. But to me in my head it feels like that and as mentionned, this is my way how to see the cases logic. Besides, I dont like grammar tables in step by step/cestina express/... 🤣 Overall, genitive is a very special case expressing this "of" and amount. My goals was to simplify and just show why we have cases and show the logic somehow which was successful since many of my beginner students now tells me that they understand it from this video. So I am very happy :-) As to "šalina", this is my way how to show this "cultural/linguistic war" between Prague and Brno. In France, they have "chocolatine" and "pain au chocolat", in every country you will certainly find another representative word that describes the best the battle between the capital city and 2nd/3rd largest city. And to me, once you know "šalina/tramvaj", you can understand the cheap wine for Pražáky, the inexisting good quality of life in Brno, the D1 to Brno taking 30 days and all the jokes related to Prague/Brno 🤣
@@slowczech It's really a bit unfortunate and confusing to claim that "krokodýlova" and "maminčino" is the genitiv case just because you don't like using it... As it's wrong. And considering that your videos now have it in their titles in the wrong word order... "Petry... something" Well, I wouldn't teach a foreigner something like that. Otherwise, nice ;-)
Video je super, jenom genitiv "Krokodýlova zmrzlina" mi přijde divý. "Krokodýlova" bych zařadil jako přídavné jméno přivlastňovací a jako nominativ. Genitiv bych viděl jako "Bez krokodýla mi zmrzlina nechutná."
I dont think I have any English accent, but I do have my own accent that I got from speaking to people from all around the world :-) How does your accent sound?
@@slowczech Tak jo) ale hodne slov ma jiny vyznam, nekdy je to moc vtipne. Takze v cestine vice slov ma slovansky koreni a to je logicke ale nekdy moc prekvapujici)
Pokud se nemýlím, tak „krokodýlova“ není genitiv podstatného jména „krokodýl“, ale přídavné jméno odvozené od slova „krokodýl“. Genitiv podstatného jména „krokodýl“ je „krokodýla“ (koho, čeho). Horší než něco neumět je umět něco špatně!
Nemýlíte se. "Krokodýlova" je přivlastňovací přídavné jméno v nominativu, které by tedy u genitivu nemělo být uvedeno. Vaše poslední věta je... zajímavá. Nicméně děkuji za to, že jste si udělal(a) čas na zhlédnutí tohoto videa. To mě těší.
There are also the pronouns who and whom. One replaces a subject and the other an object when they are people. English cases seem to just be used to prevent confusion between people. You gave yourself rather than you gave you. He gave him or himself. Who gave whom. Etc.
"na houby" znamená na nic. Učit se česky k ničemu není? To jsi chtěl říct? :) Jsem jiného názoru :) Mnoho našich fanoušků a studentů se učí česky, protože jejich prarodiče nebo praprarodiče byli Češi. Takže se učí česky, aby uctili jejich památku, aby byli blíž svým předkům,... Pro mě osobně to je velmi noblesní a krásný důvod 💚💚💚 Zdraví Eliška
@@slowczech Můj komentář byl trošku sarkastický. Je moc fajn když umím mluvit kostrbatou češtinou s příjemnýmí, sympatickýmí, českamí holkami. A máte taky Becherovku, Nohavicu a Čechomor, Boženou Němcovou a Járou Cimrmana!!! Ale češtinu je moc těžká a nebudu bohatý když umím čist 'Babička', bohužel. Takže pro super-čupr-ultra-turbo-kapitalista učit se česky je fakt k ničemu!
Do you see me? Vidíš mě? You are right! But then, the rest need to be explain with a preposition. Overall, I find it passionating but very hard at the same time to compare different language. Because every person feels the language in a different way. What do you think, Davide? :-) Eliška
@@slowczech Sure, though I don't see much feelings in linguistics: it's more of a science. Declensions are a typical way of Indo-European languages to attach grammatical function to a word, by means of a suffix. As sometimes the added meaning of a single suffix is not enough, some languages have evolved using concatenation of suffixes, while most have picked up prefixes, such as prepositions. It is an ongoing process: in English, for example, the forms thou (nominative), thee (accusative), thy (genitive) has turned into the single form: you, but cases still exists for "I" and "he". German still has cases for certain situations. Romance languages, all coming directly from Latin, have gone through a similar process: from 6 cases to basically none. It is quite possible that Czech could go the same way: already there are cases having the same form for most words, but I'm definitely not an expert in Czech. I can only hope about it: less to study :D :D
To je maminčino auto. V této větě je "maminčino auto" v nominativu. Genitiv by byl "maminčina auta". Maminčino je přivlastňovací přídavné jméno v 1. pádě, ne genitiv. Ale jinak moc pěkné video.
Souhlas. Popletla jsem to tam 😄protože učím jen přivlastňovací přídavná jména, která jsou pro neslovany stravitelna. Každopádně diky za komentář. Přemýšlím nad updatovanym videem. Uvidíme :) Eliška
@@slowczech we use the 18 on daily basis, the plus 9 are only for few words. For example when you say ‘I’m in Budapest’ in hungarian it’s ‘’BudapestEN vagyok’. But when we want to say ‘I’m in Pécs’ it’s ‘PécsETT vagyok’. I usually say PécsEN, even tho it’s not correct. :) images.app.goo.gl/YWSsq9ixVxX4E15p6 this picture is really helpful, I didn’t find one that separates the 18+9 :)
@@slowczech hahahaha jses Boss Elisko :) use whatever u like, but it was funny for me, bcuz poor guys live in Prague and will search for Salina, and will not find It hahahaha
Awesome so beautifully put thank you
Děkuji moc Eliško! Excellent explanation! I love your videos, thank you!
A great explanation, thanks.
Děkuji moc Eliško. Líbí se mi tvé vysvětlení. Učím se český a je obtížné. I hope this translation is not bad.
Ahoj Neha, moc děkuju. Hodně štěstí s učením ☺️☺️☺️ Eliška
Děkuji, Eliško! Mám moc rada!
Děkuji moc! 😍🤗
Děkuji moc krat!
Dekuju moc!! This is the best explanation I’ve received about Czech cases. I appreciate it so much 🙏
Thank you! I'm happy it helps 😀💪 Check the Instagram, yesterday I posted a nice basic review in pictures, of 3 first cases :-) E.
Skvělá práce :)
شكرأ صديقي محمود 😃
@@slowczech عفوا.. إنه حقا مجهود اكثر من رائع
@@yallacesky831 انت على حق :-D
Toto video jsem plánovala už nějakou dobu, tak mám teď radost, že je hotové :-)
Awesome, super useful! Also the fact you have the lessons in podcast form on Spotify!! Díky moc!
skveli, skveli, svkeli video, moc dekuju!
Prosíím :-)))) Jsem ráda, že toto video pomohlo!
To je super! Děkuji.
Great video and crystal clear explanations, thank you very much!!!!!!
You are very helpful Eliška mam. Many many thanks for your helpful videos 💖
Thank you for your thanks! :-)
Nemáš zač 😃
I am currently learning Czech and I must say your video was terrific help to brush up on my old grammar lessons :-D Great French accent by the way! I was genuinely impressed by the way you said "complément d'objet indirect". I would say you either have French relatives or have lived in France and studied French for many years :-)
Ahoj Diogène, I'm happy this video was so useful to watch! 💪🤗 Are you getting back to Czech after a couple of years?
You are right, you have a very good ear 👂😀 I lived in France for 5 years and have been speaking French daily for almost 10 years now. So nothing surprising 😌 Eliška
Thank you so much! I struggled learning cases in textbooks
This video really helps!
This was very very very helpful. Thank you
Děkuji,Eliško!
Great explanation!
děkuji za video 🙏🙏🙏
děkuji za video!!! It's veryyyy well explained :D
Great video thank u for ur effort
Děkuju moc!
Dekuji moc👌🍀
Thanks you nice video
There are 6 cases in Latin, but there are also a 7th case (kinda...) the locative case which is limited to a few words and names of the cities, like domi (at home or in peace), humi (in the soil), Romae (in Rome), Athenis (in Athens) etc...
Thank you!! Its true that I had Latin 15 years ago and I mostly remember femina feminae faminam :-D E.
I like Dr. Flegr's cameo at 2:30
😅 Bláznivý vědec.
@@slowczech 😂😂😂
Thank you so much Eliška!
Moc zajímavé video. Jsem rakouský soused a bohužel máme 4 cases. Ale THE WORD ORDER je důležitý, především u krátkých vět. Například máme jenom jednu možnost říci, že kočička telefonuje pejska: Die Katze ruft den Hund an.
my native language also has cases but i didn't know it had cases because i was just using it. it was when i started learning russian i realised what cases were
May I ask what is your native language? 😊
Eliska SlowCZECH sure, it’s Nepali
Thank you
Hi! I am currently learning the cases and am struggling to memorize them all 😭 do you have any tips on it??
Hey Ami, of course! --1-- Firstly, know that even if you are chosing the incorrect ending, we understand you. Wrong case/wrong ending doesnt change the meaning of what you are saying (which is not the same as with verbs). --2-- Secondly, you need to learn them gradually, meaning that it can take you 6 months or 10 months or 2 years to master them, because simply you will not hurry and your brain will have enough time to get used to the ending in this particular situation. --3--Thirdly, learn them in context + create your own model sentences that you like. Example for accusative feminine sigular ending with -a: "Miluju zmrzlinu" and than you will want to say "I hate school" do you have "školu" or I thank for love "děkuju za lásku". Etc. --4-- Eventually, even Czech people do not use the correct endings, so dont be too hard on yourself :-D :-D (y)
Eliska SlowCZECH
Thank you for your reply!
So do you think it’s better to memorize the declensions by tables or by reading and listening a lot and get the patterns unconsciously? which way do you think is better in order to get them as fast as possible?
@@ami0362 well it depends on many aspects. but mostly on your motivation and if you like learning by heart and if this works for you. it does for some people. but for most of the students work hearing and reading and saying it 1000x. You would never say Dobrou den / or Jednu pivem prosím.
what about plurals?
Coming in audio book. After the first one Learn Czech cases with stories. Newt one - Learn Plural Cases with stories :)
After 2 years of living here in CZ, I still dont have a clue on how these cases work. Very nice video though!
And how much do you need them? Maybe you can live without them ;-) Many of the students dont really need them if they get enough of the input (listening, watching, reading) :-) Eliška
@@slowczech
Děkuji vám za vaši odpověď :-)
Very few of them come natural sometimes without thinking about it when i try to speak (thinking wouldn't help anyway since i don't know the theory behind it).
I have tried to learn a few cases in the past but it was too overwelming for me personally. I've been just sticking with learning new words, watching czech tv, reading texts which are not too complicated and listen to alot of real life conversations. But I am determined to learn them once I feel like I'm ready! :-)
99% of the people in my environment only speak Czech, which gives me great daily exposure to the language. I can express myself very basic, but as i always say to my conversation partner: Mluvím trochu český. Znám hodně slovo, ale nemám lepídlo dělat správné věty a konversace.
@@andreash3906 My partner is a foreigner. He has never known what those cases are and what they are good for. Yet, he makes phone calls in Czech (vet car service...), he gets angry at a non professional assistant in the hospital in Czech, etc. I disagree that it is necessary to need learn the cases. Of course, 90% of the students want to learn them. That's why this simple video. But as Stephen Krashen says, getting enough exposure and input, as you have, is crucial for a successful language acquisition. So you are doing it great! Just continue. Kids need years. Why would adult need just 2 or 3 years? Zdravím z Brna. A myslím, že máš dobre lepidlo na slova. Úsměv a gestikulace stačí. Postupně to bude lepší a lepší! 👏👏👏
Zuzana moc miluje Lukáše - normal description of the situation.
Lukáše moc miluje Zuzana - let's say, two friends are talking about third one of them
Zuzana miluje Lukáše moc - imagine little sister revealing 'The big secret!'
Great video like always, but.....Genitiv is explained in a way that can’t be found in the normal declension tables where it would be “to je Auto (of) maminky”. Instead you use the declension of the possessive adjective maminčino or krokodýlova. Both is nominative. 2nd little thing: šalina is (according to my friends and the fact that it’s not in my dictionaries) only used in Brno. 🤣
🤣🤣 Yes! Very good points, Stefan! You are right about the possessive adjectives. Personally, I hate using genitive for possesion - but I tell it to my students because Czech people say it normally - so I replace "maminky auto" by "maminčino auto" which sounds better to me and sticks better to this English logic. But yes, you are certainly right, it is an adjective and I hope it will not be confusing. But to me in my head it feels like that and as mentionned, this is my way how to see the cases logic. Besides, I dont like grammar tables in step by step/cestina express/... 🤣 Overall, genitive is a very special case expressing this "of" and amount. My goals was to simplify and just show why we have cases and show the logic somehow which was successful since many of my beginner students now tells me that they understand it from this video. So I am very happy :-) As to "šalina", this is my way how to show this "cultural/linguistic war" between Prague and Brno. In France, they have "chocolatine" and "pain au chocolat", in every country you will certainly find another representative word that describes the best the battle between the capital city and 2nd/3rd largest city. And to me, once you know "šalina/tramvaj", you can understand the cheap wine for Pražáky, the inexisting good quality of life in Brno, the D1 to Brno taking 30 days and all the jokes related to Prague/Brno 🤣
@@slowczech It's really a bit unfortunate and confusing to claim that "krokodýlova" and "maminčino" is the genitiv case just because you don't like using it... As it's wrong. And considering that your videos now have it in their titles in the wrong word order... "Petry... something" Well, I wouldn't teach a foreigner something like that. Otherwise, nice ;-)
@@iLearnCzech Jo, it was a mistake, it happens :-) I might do a better one one day. Thanks for comment.
I’m looking for a video that explains when to use Jak, Jaky, and so on.
www.slowczech.com/152-jak-jaky-jaka-jake-jakou-jakeho/
Můžeš poslouchat podcast :)
Video je super, jenom genitiv "Krokodýlova zmrzlina" mi přijde divý. "Krokodýlova" bych zařadil jako přídavné jméno přivlastňovací a jako nominativ. Genitiv bych viděl jako "Bez krokodýla mi zmrzlina nechutná."
Eliška, were did you get your English accent from?
I dont think I have any English accent, but I do have my own accent that I got from speaking to people from all around the world :-) How does your accent sound?
Dekuji moc! Pro Ukrajinky neje to moc tezke)
Jo, to máš pravdu, pro Ukrajinky to není těžké, je to také slovanský jazyk. A navíc dost podobný češtině! :) Eliška
@@slowczech Tak jo) ale hodne slov ma jiny vyznam, nekdy je to moc vtipne. Takze v cestine vice slov ma slovansky koreni a to je logicke ale nekdy moc prekvapujici)
Pokud se nemýlím, tak „krokodýlova“ není genitiv podstatného jména „krokodýl“, ale přídavné jméno odvozené od slova „krokodýl“. Genitiv podstatného jména „krokodýl“ je „krokodýla“ (koho, čeho). Horší než něco neumět je umět něco špatně!
Nemýlíte se. "Krokodýlova" je přivlastňovací přídavné jméno v nominativu, které by tedy u genitivu nemělo být uvedeno. Vaše poslední věta je... zajímavá. Nicméně děkuji za to, že jste si udělal(a) čas na zhlédnutí tohoto videa. To mě těší.
There are also the pronouns who and whom. One replaces a subject and the other an object when they are people. English cases seem to just be used to prevent confusion between people. You gave yourself rather than you gave you. He gave him or himself. Who gave whom. Etc.
Rozumel asi lasky zajimel
Slowczech je fakt hustý. Diký moc.
Bohužel se učit česky je úplně na houby!! To je škoda.
"na houby" znamená na nic. Učit se česky k ničemu není? To jsi chtěl říct? :)
Jsem jiného názoru :)
Mnoho našich fanoušků a studentů se učí česky, protože jejich prarodiče nebo praprarodiče byli Češi. Takže se učí česky, aby uctili jejich památku, aby byli blíž svým předkům,... Pro mě osobně to je velmi noblesní a krásný důvod 💚💚💚
Zdraví Eliška
@@slowczech
Můj komentář byl trošku sarkastický. Je moc fajn když umím mluvit kostrbatou češtinou s příjemnýmí, sympatickýmí, českamí holkami.
A máte taky Becherovku, Nohavicu a Čechomor, Boženou Němcovou a Járou Cimrmana!!!
Ale češtinu je moc těžká a nebudu bohatý když umím čist 'Babička', bohužel.
Takže pro super-čupr-ultra-turbo-kapitalista učit se česky je fakt k ničemu!
Not bad, wasn't as hard as I thought.
... right? 😄 Eliška
11:28 na šalinu...
There's also proper cases (no preposition, different ending) in English, for pronouns: I/me, he/him, etc.
Do you see me? Vidíš mě? You are right! But then, the rest need to be explain with a preposition. Overall, I find it passionating but very hard at the same time to compare different language. Because every person feels the language in a different way. What do you think, Davide? :-) Eliška
@@slowczech Sure, though I don't see much feelings in linguistics: it's more of a science.
Declensions are a typical way of Indo-European languages to attach grammatical function to a word, by means of a suffix. As sometimes the added meaning of a single suffix is not enough, some languages have evolved using concatenation of suffixes, while most have picked up prefixes, such as prepositions. It is an ongoing process: in English, for example, the forms thou (nominative), thee (accusative), thy (genitive) has turned into the single form: you, but cases still exists for "I" and "he". German still has cases for certain situations. Romance languages, all coming directly from Latin, have gone through a similar process: from 6 cases to basically none. It is quite possible that Czech could go the same way: already there are cases having the same form for most words, but I'm definitely not an expert in Czech. I can only hope about it: less to study :D :D
To je maminčino auto. V této větě je "maminčino auto" v nominativu. Genitiv by byl "maminčina auta". Maminčino je přivlastňovací přídavné jméno v 1. pádě, ne genitiv. Ale jinak moc pěkné video.
Souhlas. Popletla jsem to tam 😄protože učím jen přivlastňovací přídavná jména, která jsou pro neslovany stravitelna. Každopádně diky za komentář. Přemýšlím nad updatovanym videem. Uvidíme :) Eliška
THIS WHY PPL CALL ME ERIKU INSTEAD OF ERIK😭😭
😁😁 Přesně tak!
-cries in Hungarian-
*hears we have 18 cases + 9 not real ones*
-happy noises-
How may of them do you really use? What is the purpose and reason of your cases? Is it like in Czech?
@@slowczech we use the 18 on daily basis, the plus 9 are only for few words. For example when you say ‘I’m in Budapest’ in hungarian it’s ‘’BudapestEN vagyok’. But when we want to say ‘I’m in Pécs’ it’s ‘PécsETT vagyok’.
I usually say PécsEN, even tho it’s not correct. :)
images.app.goo.gl/YWSsq9ixVxX4E15p6 this picture is really helpful, I didn’t find one that separates the 18+9 :)
True Story : The Germans had the enigma machine for their encryption. They could have just used the Czech language.
:-D :-D Exactly! They could have and their life could have been so simple! E.
ceka na salinu ? :) now plz explain foreigners why u say shalina :) haahahah
Because it's local Brno word for Tramvaj. And I prefer it as it's feminine 😊
@@slowczech hahahaha jses Boss Elisko :) use whatever u like, but it was funny for me, bcuz poor guys live in Prague and will search for Salina, and will not find It hahahaha
@@elmanalimammadov3024 🤣🤣 I am spreading the correct Czech words around the whole country!
@@slowczech #brnopride :) hahaaha how is jizdenka ? u call it different to, ze ?
@@elmanalimammadov3024 🤣 když je to měsíční nebo delší jízdenka, máme šalinkartu!