Czech Grammar: Masculine Nouns, Adjectives, and Demonstratives, Slides of Chinese Language

Download Czech Grammar: Masculine Nouns, Adjectives, and Demonstratives and more Slides Chinese Language in PDF only on Docsity! Masculine Nouns, Adjectives, and Demonstratives Czech 403 Mužský rod • What are the most important parameters? – Hard vs. soft – Animate vs. inanimate – Virile vs. non-virile Virile vs. non-virile • Virile: – –a/-ě – Hard: turista, hrdina • Sg: like fem –a, except DLsg –ovi • Pl: like masc anim, but Npl – é, -ové – Soft: soudce, zachránce • Like hard, except Npl -i • Non-virile: – -Ø Two rules of thumb… • Gpl is always – –ů • Dpl is always – -ům