Czech Cases: Genitive Singular for Nouns
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- In this video we are going to have a closer look at the "sneaky" genitive case - when to use it and how the nouns in their singular form change. You will find this handy when you want to order your drink without... sugar or ice!
If you are not sure about the correct ending of a noun, you can check it on this website:
prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/en
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Sections:
0:00 Introduction
1:01 When to use the genitive case
9:59 Words ending with a vowel
13:31 Words ending with a consonant
18:10 Masculine animate nouns
22:05 Exercise
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Fantastic class! Very useful Video! Thank you very much
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
Amazing job 👏 🙌
Ta videa jsou ryzí zlato!!!
Měla bys se stát učitelkou.
Děkuji. Učitelka už jsem, ze své praxe pak čerpám inspiraci na videa.
Super lesson! Moc děkuji
Velmi dobré video! Děkuji moc Zuzku!
great video ! thank you
Thank you.
Dĕkuju mockrát ❤️
I love your lessons! Also bought a couple at Udemy! Can recommend this to others!
I have a question about the exercise: why is the right answer of pocitac (sorry, cannot type the accents): pocitace and not pocitaci?
Because you explained that it is always (?) an “i” after a soft consonant.
Thanks, Daniëlle. I'm happy you are enjoying my videos and are also my student at Udemy!
At the beginning of that section (minute 13:34) I first explain what a *soft, hard and ambiguous consonant* means in Czech in general. Czech words containing e.g. a soft consonant such -č, -j + [i] sound = _či, ji,_ could never be spelled with *y* (in any situation). In other words, if we hear an [i] sound after those consonants, we write them with _i:_ čistý, číslo; jiný, jídlo, její...
I mention what goes after such consonants for the genitive a bit later (minute 17:42 for soft consonants in masculine nouns),
Please watch that section again and let me know if that makes sense now.
Thanks! Now I see I mixed it up! Thanks for your prompt and extensive reply!!
Great work, examples at the end are very useful. How long until you are planning on starting the plurals Zuzka?
I haven't thought of making plurals but it would be a good topic after I finish my series on frequent prepositions (soon, maybe in 3 weeks).
@@CzechbyZuzka Brilliant, I have just binged this entire playlist of 23 videos, only have the instrumental and vocative videos left that Ill have done in an hour. Then Ill check out the others. I am a fast learner so your style of teaching suits me, as I usually teach myself things and rarely find teachers to be much help. But you are one of the výimnky! Well done.
A much-needed video lecture, straight to the point, and full of examples, thank you!
Thank you so much, I hope you will find good use of the genitive and start noticing when we say it.
@@CzechbyZuzka Samozřejmě!
This makes cz so difficult!!! Thank you
Call it "complex"! And that's the beauty of it.
The way you is very interesting, but this clues you give us like accusative being similar to genetive in somehow are very important...makes a difference to construct a phrase
I would say Czech has more cases than 7. Consider the genitive case, is it really 1 case? To me it is a cluster or group of cases all sharing the same rules.
As Zuzka has demonstrated it is used in many scenarios, and these individual scenarios are actually their own cases. I mean that's just my opinion, but I really wonder if some other languages claiming to have for example 14 cases or more, really just don't cluster or group their cases, even if they share the same rules.
However way you look at it, it seems safer to consider cases rather a set of rules, than a physical use case.
I understand what you mean. According to the Czech grammar we have 7 cases, but each of them has its singular and plural form, so technicaly that could be 14 cases in total. We also have to take into account the noun's gender and its last letter(s) and therefore we end up having several possible endings, as you might know from the video.
The grammar views the genitive as one case although it is used in a lot of different situations. A case expresses a relation between words (it could be preposition + noun, verb + noun, noun (quantifier) + noun, etc...). That doesn't mean each circumstance of the genitive should be a different case. In Czech, the genitive case expresses a relation "of what/whom". It's more challenging to explain it in English, in Czech we have "case questions" (helping us realize the relation). For the genitive case it is: _(z) Koho, čeho?_
@@CzechbyZuzka Don't you want to arrange an hour WhatsApp session please to explain these relationship questions? Everytime I hear these a Czech person use these questions to determine the case, but so far not even my wife can explain why these questions work.
Right now my objective is to learn cases and word parts before I even try move on, so I need to have a very solid foundation even if it takes months to get this.
@@blahdiblah2169 Case questions work well for native Czechs or people that have been immersed in the language long enough to have developped a feeling for it (or speak another Slavic language). I would not recommend relating to case questions to a student who doesn't have experience with a similar grammatical system because it will not make any sense. That's why it is easier to learn specific examples, cases used in context and later, over the years, start really understanding the whole case concept.
I would prefer Skype for our session.
@@CzechbyZuzka Dekuju Zuzko. Uz pisal jsem neco pres skypu.
Prosím potřebuju video S vysvětlením na vedlejší věty jako podmět , přísudek...
I haven't seen your comment. I'm planning on preparing a video where I will focus on Czech syntax.
@@CzechbyZuzka Nevadí, moc děkuji za odpověď
I’m waiting for new video
Coming soon!
I am by the park???
Jsem U PARKU - genitiv.