School, free time and the world
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Czech words for school, free time, sport and music, weather, animals and nature, such as kniha, fotbal, hudba, počasí and pes.
Czech A1: vocabulary and grammar lists
27 flashcard lists in Czech, level A1, written for English speakers.
27 lists · 2,021 cards
The grammar guide: Czech grammar
Level A1 — beginner: can understand and use very simple everyday expressions.
A few words at this level: město, mobil, Amerika, dobrý den.
Vocabulary
Common adjectives and adverbs
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Common Czech adjectives and adverbs: qualities, feelings, sizes, colours, amounts, degrees and a few set phrases, with their English meanings.
In town, shopping and travel
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Czech words for places in town, shops and money, clothes, transport and the verbs of buying, travelling and visiting, with their English meanings.
Home, the day and meals
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Czech words for the home and its rooms, everyday routines such as waking, washing and cleaning, and food, drink and eating out.
People, family and the body
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Czech words for family members, people, life events, feelings and parts of the body, with their English meanings.
Numbers, time, days and dates
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Czech numbers from one to twenty-five, telling the time, the days of the week and the months, with words such as dnes, zítra and týden.
Countries, nationalities and languages
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Czech names of countries, continents and languages and the adjectives that go with them, such as Česko, Evropa, Francie, anglický and čeština.
Pronouns, determiners and negation
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The Czech words for I, you, he, this, who, every, some, no and other little words that stand for or point to people and things. These little words often have several translations: the list is practised as flashcards, and you judge your own answer.
Greetings and farewells (dobrý den, ahoj, na shledanou), polite phrases, personal details such as jméno and adresa, and words for phones, messages, reading and writing.
Verbs, function words and more
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Common Czech verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, question words and a few everyday nouns, with their English meanings.
The past: all the forms
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The past forms of the A1 verbs, by gender and number, with jsem and jsi in the first and second persons, to recite aloud and check yourself: dělal jsem, dělala jsem, dělal; byl, šel, měl, mohl; jedl, pil, četl, řekl.
The present: all the conjugations
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The six present forms of the A1 verbs, to recite aloud and check yourself: verbs in -at (dělám, děláš), in -ovat (pracuju), in -it and -et (mluvím, bydlím), in -u (čtu, píšu, nesu), být, mít, jít, chtít, vědět, and the verbs with se (jmenuju se).
Reading and pronunciation
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The Czech sounds and spellings an English speaker reads differently: c and č, š and ž, ř, ch and h, j, the soft dě, tě, ně, ě after p and m, long vowels and stress, ú and ů, y and i, ou, and r and l without a vowel. Each sound is heard in a word, then recognised by ear and on the page. Nothing is typed.
Grammar
Být: first sentences (jsem, jsi, je, není)
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The present of být (jsem, jsi, je, jsme, jste, jsou), the subject pronoun usually left out, ty and polite vy, the negative with ne- (nejsem, není), pointing out with To je… and To jsou…, Kdo je to? and Co je to?, and questions such as Jsi doma? and Kde je…? with tady and tam.
Calling someone with the vocative (Petře, Evo, pane Nováku, paní učitelko), joining words and clauses with a, i, ale, nebo, protože, že and když, saying už and ještě (už ne, ještě ne), and the adverbs česky, dobře, špatně, moc and trochu.
The gender of a Czech noun told from its ending (ten stůl, ta káva, to okno) and the words that agree with it: nový, nová, nové, moderní, jaký, který, tenhle and tamten, then the nouns that hide their gender, people and animals, and a woman's job and surname (učitelka, paní Nováková).
Where to and from where in Czech: do and the genitive (do školy, do obchodu), na and the accusative (na poštu, na koncert), kde or kam (v Praze, do Prahy, doma, domů), z and ze, u, vedle, blízko, od, chodit or jezdit, the instrumental of transport (autem, tramvají) and přijít, odjet.
Modal verbs: chtít, moct, muset, umět, smět
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The Czech modal verbs with an infinitive: chtít (chci, chtěl bych), moct (můžu, nemůžu), muset (musím, nemusí), umět, znát and vědět (umím, znám, vím), then smět and mít (nesmíte, mám čekat?). It sets English can, must, want and may against the Czech verb that fits each.
Cardinal numbers and their nouns: jeden, jedna, jedno and dva, dvě; the plural after two to four (dvě kávy, tři piva); pět korun, deset minut and prices; the clock (v jednu hodinu, ve dvě hodiny); days and parts of the day (v pondělí, ve středu); ordinals first to tenth; the date and the months (prvního května, v lednu).
Possessives: můj, tvůj, jeho, náš, svůj
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The Czech possessives: můj, moje and tvůj, tvoje agreeing with the noun, jeho, její and jejich chosen by the owner, náš, váš and čí? for whose, their accusative (mého bratra, moji sestru, naši učitelku) and the reflexive svůj (Hledám svoji tašku), which points back to the subject.
The short dative forms mi, ti, mu, jí, nám, vám, jim after verbs such as psát and pomáhat, in Je mi zima and Je mi dvacet let, in Líbí se mi and Chutná mi, and the short accusative forms mě, tě, ho, ji in Bolí mě hlava, Zajímá mě and Baví mě.
The accusative singular of nouns and adjectives (kávu, auto, bratra, dobrou kávu, dobrého kamaráda), koho and co with ten and jeden, the short pronouns mě, tě, ho, ji, nás, vás, je, mám rád and rád with a verb, and na, pro and za (čekám na autobus, dárek pro mámu).
The future: budu, budu dělat, půjdu, pojedu
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The Czech future: budu, budeš, bude as the future of být, budu pracovat with an infinitive, the one-word půjdu and pojedu, nebudu and Budeš doma?, time words such as zítra and příští týden, and the present that stands for a plan (Zítra jdu do kina).
The locative after v, ve, na and o: -ě or -e (v Praze, ve škole, v kině), -u (v parku, v hotelu, v Německu), -i (v restauraci, v pokoji, na náměstí), v or na (na poště, na nádraží), a changed consonant (v bance, v knize) and o for talking about something (o práci).
The Czech past tense: the -l form (byl, byla, bylo; dělal; šel, jel, měl, chtěl; jedl, pil, četl) with jsem, jsi, jsme, jste after it, -li and -ly in the plural, jsem and se in second place, nebyl jsem, Dělal jsi to?, the polite byl jste, and the present or the past.
The plural: things (obchody, auta, restaurace)
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The plural of things in the nominative and the accusative: -y (obchody, banány, kávy, školy), -a for neuter nouns (auta, piva, okna), -e and the unchanged forms (pokoje, tramvaje, restaurace, náměstí), plural adjectives and ty, ta, moje (nové obchody, nová auta), and ruce, nohy, oči, uši, lidé, děti.
The Czech present in its conjugations: -ám, -áš (dělám, děláte), -ím, -íš (mluvím, bydlí), -uju, -uješ (pracuju) and -u, -eš (čtu, píšu), the irregular mít, jít, jet, chtít, jíst and vědět, verbs with se (jmenuju se, učím se) and the double negative (nic nemám, nikdo tam není).