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Welcome
to the paradise of Study Tables. They are an essential component
of the textbook and they will keep you good company on this
journey (and hopefully after too).

How to use the Study Tables

Make sure you read the introduction to the case in the book before
you look at a certain table so that you don't feel overwhelmed by
the number of examples. I use the same structure for each case so
there are no surprises. I picked enough examples with words that
would reflect the different endings. Some cases have more
examples than others because they are more complex and show
more changes (such as the locative and dative case).

In this document, I use these abbreviations:

Genders:
M.a. - masculine animate F - feminine,
M.i. - masculine inanimate N - neuter
Number: Language:
SG - singular inf. - informal (mostly spoken)
PL - plural f. - formal (mostly written)
Cases:
Nom./N - nominative case, Ac./A - accusative case, Gen./G -
genitive case, Loc./L - locative case, Dat./D - dative case, Instr./I -
instrumental case, Voc./V - vocative case

Enjoy and learn a lot!

Prachov Rocks

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 Index
Grammatical Cases
Nominative ............................................................................................ 4
Accusative ............................................................................................. 7
Genitive ............................................................................................... 10
Locative ............................................................................................... 13
Dative ................................................................................................... 16
Instrumental ....................................................................................... 19
Vocative ............................................................................................... 22
Declension Models for Nouns & Adjectives
Masculine animate ............................................................................ 25
Masculine inanimate ......................................................................... 27
Feminine .............................................................................................. 28
Neuter .................................................................................................. 29
Different Parts of Speech
Adjectives ........................................................................................... 30
Personal pronouns ............................................................................ 32
Possessive pronouns ........................................................................ 33
Demonstrative pronouns ................................................................. 35
More numbers .................................................................................... 36 The Zachariáš of Hradec Square, Telč

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 Nominative
Singular & Plural

Masculine animate adjectives (M.a.)

Masculine inanimate adjectives (M.I.)

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 Nominative
Singular & Plural

feminine adjectives (F)

neuter adjectives (N)

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 Nominative SG & Pl
pronouns

personal pronouns

reflexive
pronoun

nom. sg - possessive pronouns

nom. PL - possessive pronouns

nom. sg & PL - demoNstrative pronouns

more useful pronouns

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 accusative
Singular & Plural

Masculine animate adjectives (M.a.)

Masculine inanimate adjectives (M.I.)

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 accusative
Singular & Plural

feminine adjectives (F)

neuter adjectives (N)

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 accusative SG & Pl
pronouns
reflexive
personal pronouns pronoun

Ac. sg - possessive pronouns

Ac. PL - possessive pronouns

ac. sg & PL - demonstrative pronouns

numerals
more useful pronouns

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 genitive
Singular & Plural
Masculine animate adjectives (M.a., m.i., N)

Remember that we
also use the genitive
plural for the amount
of 5 and higher.
Here, the letter e
disappears:
1 pes / bez pesa psa /
5 psů

Masculine inanimate

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 genitive
Singular & Plural
feminine adjectives (F)

Be aware of the consonant

clusters:
1 babička - babičk babiček

neuter

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 genitive SG & Pl
pronouns
personal pronouns

gen. sg - possessive pronouns

gen. PL - possessive pronouns

gen. sg & PL - demonstrative pronouns

numerals
more useful pronouns

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 locative
Singular & Plural

Masculine animate adjectives (M.a., m.i., N)

Masculine inanimate

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 locative
Singular & Plural
feminine adjectives (F)

Exception!
dcera - o dceři

neuter

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 locative SG & Pl
pronouns

personal pronouns

loc. sg - possessive pronouns

loc. PL - possessive pronouns

loc. sg & PL - demonstrative pronouns

numerals
more useful pronouns

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 dative
Singular & Plural

Masculine animate adjectives (M.a., m.i., N)

Masculine inanimate

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 DAtive
Singular & Plural
feminine adjectives (F)

Exception!
dcera - k dceři

neuter

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 dative SG & Pl
pronouns
personal pronouns

dat. sg - possessive pronouns

dat. PL - possessive pronouns

dat. sg & PL - demonstrative pronouns

numerals
more useful pronouns

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 instrumental
Singular & Plural

Masculine animate adjectives (M.a., m.i., N)

Masculine inanimate

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 instrumental
Singular & Plural

feminine adjectives (F)

neuter

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 instrumental SG & Pl
pronouns
personal pronouns

instr. sg - possessive pronouns

instr. PL - possessive pronouns

instr. sg & PL - demonstrative pronouns

numerals
more useful pronouns

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 vocative
Singular & Plural
Masculine animate adjectives (M.a.)

Masculine inanimate adjectives (m.i.)

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 vocative
Singular & Plural

feminine adjectives (F)

neuter adjectives (N)

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 vocative Sg & Pl
pronouns

personal pronouns

voc. sg - possessive pronouns

voc. PL - possessive pronouns

nom. sg & PL - demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns and the rest of the pronouns are not used in
the vocative case.

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 DECLENSION MODELS for
Masculine Animate Nouns & Adjectives
Another way to learn the cases is to look at the declension models. Each
gender has several models, depending on what letter it finishes with.
There are 14 noun models in total: 4 for masculine animate, 2 for
masculine inanimate, 4 for feminine and 4 for neuter gender.

Nouns ending in a hard consonant (h, ch, k, r, Nouns ending in a soft cons
onant
d, t, n) and most of ambiguous c. (b, f, m, p, s, v) (ž, š, č, ř, c, j, ď, ť, ň)

Nouns ending in –l are irregular. Mostly professions ending in –tel would be

declined as muž. Compare: Vidím učitele, spisovatele x manžela, datla.

adjectives

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 DECLENSION MODELS for
Masculine Animate ending in -l

A helpful rule: Masculine nouns ending in -tel usually refer to a person

(often professions). In that case, they would be declined as muž.
Let's see the rest of the words:

Model pán: Pavel, Karel, orel, osel, datel, vůl, rebel,

Španěl, manžel, anděl, ďábel

Model muž: učitel, pachatel, zaměstnavatel, skladatel, majitel,

spisovatel, podnikatel, obyvatel, léčitel, (ne)přítel, král

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 DECLENSION MODELS for
Masculine inAnimate Nouns & Adjectives

Nouns ending in a hard consonant (h, ch, k, r, Nouns ending in a soft cons
onant
d, t, n) and most of ambiguous c. (b, f, m, p, s, v) (ž, š, č, ř, c, j, ď, ť, ň)

Keep in mind that this type of sorting doesn‘t work 100%. Some masculine
inanimate nouns are irregular (mostly those ending with –l or -s):
kotel – u kotle (genitive), kostel - u kostela x bordel – u bordelu, stůl – u stolu;
les – u lesa, rybník – u rybníka;
names of towns/quarters: Zličín – ze Zličína, Chodov – z Chodova,
Harrachov – z Harrachova, Mělník – z Mělníka, Jičín – z Jičína

That's why we can refer to a sub-model les,

which is a slightly modified model of hrad.

adjectives

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 DECLENSION MODELS for
feminine Nouns & Adjectives

ns ending in -a Feminine nouns en

Feminine nou ding in -e/ě.

Mostly f. noun Mostly f. nouns en

s ending in ding in
l, ň, ř, v, z, ž c, č, ď, š, t, ť

adjectives

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 DECLENSION MODELS for
neuter Nouns & Adjectives

ending in -o Neuter nouns en

Neuter nouns ding in -e/ě.

Specific group of mostly baby animals

ending in -e/ě, but also nouns like zvíře,
klíště, rajče, koště, poupě, doupě Neuter nouns ending
in -í

adjectives

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 adjectives
All the cases

I know some of you will appreciate having all the cases shown in one
table. It is very useful once you have familiarized yourself with each case,
therefore this will not overwhelm you but rather give you another
perspective. Look at the similarities and how certain cases resemble
others.

Below you will see the two types of adjectives and all their declentions.
Also, it is useful to know that the pronouns který, některý, nějaký,
žádný... behave the same way.

Notice that the plural forms of masculine

inanimate & feminine hard adjectives
have the same forms in each case.

For soft adjectives, the plural

forms of all the genders
are identical in each case.
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 more examples of adjectives
in nominative sg. & pl.

Observe how the pattern changes with the gender and the number
(singular/plural). Some forms of adjectives are not filled in because it
wouldn't be common to use them in that particular noun (inanimate, not
living, e.g. veselý strom - a happy tree).

Remember the plural forms of

masculine inanimate & feminine
adjectives are identical.

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 Personal pronouns
All the cases

Remember that the personal pronouns can:

accompany a verb (Vidím tě)
appear after a preposition and we often have to use a different form
(Čekám na tebe)
be emphasized by their long forms (Tebe nevidím)

The locative case has only one type of pronoun because it's a
prepositional case. In other words, this case always goes together with a
preposition (e.g. o, na, v, po).

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possessive pronouns
All the cases

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possessive pronouns
All the cases

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 demonstrative pronouns
All the cases
On this page, I am showing you the most frequent demonstrative
pronouns. However, there are more types, in particular in the colloquial
Czech. You can learn more about them in these two videos:
Part One
Part Two

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 Numerals
All the cases

Here you can find the cardinal numbers in all their cases on one
page. Keep in mind that there are more forms of number one
(depending on the gender) as well as number two. The red frames
are showing you the numerals that keep the same form in every
case (except for the nominative).

All the numbers

from 5 to 99
have the same
endings.
e.g. number 33:
bez třiceti tří
bez třiceti čtyř
bez třiceti pěti

Idiomatic phrases with numerals:

Tváří se, jako by neuměl do pěti počítat, ale je mazaný jak liška!
- He looks so innocent but he is sly as a fox. Literally: He looks as
if couldn't count to five.
Jde to s ním od deseti/desíti k pěti. - He's going from bad to
worse. Literally: He's going from ten to five.
Zmiz, než napočítám do tří! - Get out before I count to three!
Ten návrh beru všemi deseti. - I'll take that proposal in a
heartbeat. Literally: I take that proposal with all my ten [fingers].

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 more numbers

On this and the following page, I am going to show you two more
forms of numerals. Read the theory and examples on this page
and see the tables on the next page.

a) Informal cardinal numbers

In informal spoken Czech, we like to use specific forms for
numbers which act as nouns. All those forms are feminine and
finish with -ka:, e.g. jednička (translates to number one). These
words are commonly used in different cases. We use these forms
in various situations:

1. to say a number of a tram or a bus:

Už jede desítka. - Number ten is already coming.
Čekám na stojedničku. - I'm waiting for the 101.
2. to refer to a school grade:
Dostal jsem pětku. - I got an F (lit. number five).
Jana má samé jedničky. - Jana has straight As.
3. to refer to bank notes:
Půjčíš mi stovku? - Will you lend me a hundred?
4. distance in sports:
Za kolik uběhneš osmistovku? - In how much time can you run
the 800 (meters)?
Vylezli jsme na pětitisícovku. - We climbed the 5k.

b) Ordinal numbers
These forms act as adjectives. Most of them are hard adjectives
(they have a different form for each gender, e.g. druhý den,
druhá káva, druhé místo) and they are a few soft adjectives too
(první, třetí, tisící). A very common use for these types of
numerals is for the dates:
13. (třináctého) června - 13th of June
17. (sedmnáctého) července - 17th of July
2. (druhého) listopadu - 2nd of November

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We are at the end
of the Study Tables Paradise. Please remember
that they are always here for you whenever you
are in doubt or you feel like you need to review a
specific case and its endings. I recommend you
print the tables and keep them handy. You have
done a great job, keep it up! Go out there and use
the knowledge in the real world.
At the Jestřebí Mountains

- Your teacher and guide

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