Greeting on Czech. Funny Czech

In the lesson of the Czech language:

- What will be the Cow in Czekh?

- Crash.

- What will be the "road"?

- Draga.

- And "forty" how will it be?

— …(!!!)

"Strike PST scruck krk" - A normal person will survive hardly. Think, invent? This phrase really exists in Czech language and translates as "sleeping a finger through the throat" ... So I say, a normal person and in the head does not take up.

HORRIBLE SPIRINE

The first year of stay in Prague was especially heavy for me. At least because the acquaintances called me exclusively "the priecker" - a girlfriend. The Slavs brothers were uncommon, as a shame and even indecently sounds this word into Russian manner. And when I was asked where my cattle, I generally lost the gift of speech. "No guys, it's too. I can still be a priest, but a cattle-tote and? " If you are asked about "cattle" or, worse, about "bydvishte" - know that we are talking about a place of residence. And if you say that you live in a pretty "barrack", the more should not be offended, because in Czech "Barak" is a house. In the Czechs, the highest degree of praise is one capacious word. When the guy wants to make a girl a compliment, he says: "Oh, how are you terrible!" Have you already imagined a terrible prison that lives with cattle in the barrack?

Meat processing plant "Pisek"

To be Russian in Prague is generally very difficult. You buy a lot of vegetables, and you stretch fruits ("Evoy" in Czech - fruit). Instead of the side dish you can get "toadstool". Try eat! And although the green sticky mass is actually buckwheat, Czech buckwheat looks like a ribbon. In the grocery stores, it is generally better not to surprise: how can I buy food to "Cream"? Namely, Czech products stores are called. Especially since the bread is still "stale" (in Czech fresh), and sausages are mainly produced at the "Pisek Meat Processing Plant". Apotheosis of Czech cooking - "Solo-cake salad" ("cigarettes" - cucumbers). Well, already dried saliva?

And how will it be?

Such words like "washed" (then you mean soap), "lethal" (aircraft), "Khodllo" (stop), "Wamstandlo" (sink), "sedadlo" (seat, and what did you think?), Turned out to be flowers compared to With what I had to hear in the first year of life in Prague. By the way, it is interesting, but what will be "jumped" in Czech? Once, peacefully rushing on the catamaran, I heard hoarse screams: "Shame! Padla! "A boat sailed directly on us with catamaran, and the steering wheel was in all the throat of indecent words. Well, who would not be offended if he was called Padlav, and even shameful? Wow! I remembered these words and threw offense at all Czechs. When the right moment came (I was simply calculated in the restaurant), I decided to take revenge, and at the same time show my updated vocabulary. Well, issued a waiter, with a wicked head with a wise head: "Shame, Padla ..." He looked at me for a long time. It turned out that "Padlo" is just a paddle, and "shame" - attention. The man shouted in the boat "cautiously, oars!", Wishing to protect me from the blow to the paddle.

Popular

Yes, what?!

Czech generally pays many surprises. So, for example, English-speaking tourists climb into a fight for the fact that the courtery seller-Czech purchased them for the purchase. "Thank you very much" in Czech sounds like this: "Dick Mow", that with a quick pronunciation gives the English "Dick E Mouse". And the simple clarification "Yes, what?" Sounds for the Englishman in generally kill, because "Fact Yo?". What is good for Czech, for English-speaking - a red rag. Another "masterpiece" of Czech language is Vietnamese Czech. Asians in Prague are full, and everyone naturally has their pronunciation. So, leaving their store, you will hear on the goodbye "Nassano" - "Goodbye" that you mean. In Czech "Goodbye" - "Nashelyanou", but what can you do with Vietnamese? Nassano, so Nassano.

Sleepy perfume and funny "odpad"

"Lady all fragrant. They say: she stinks. Linguistic reference: In the Czech Republic, the spirits are "Iavek", "Boris Goldberg writes about Czech language. And I confirm his observation. Wanting praise the fragrance of food, for example, do not hurry with a compliment "how tasty smells". "Snor" is very pleasant for Czech sense of smell, but the "smell" is associated with something rotten and disgusting. Therefore, all girls in the Czech Republic are breathtaking, but trash can The tanks smell. By the way, the trash cans (well, since they smell tasty) and are called respectively - "odpad". If "odpad" is mixed, then it is called simply - "funny odpad". Lovers of the Russian slang very much like "Harp" (understand), "Pallo" (fuel), "Soranda" (not-no, it's a joke), "Mraz" (frost) and "MZDA" (fee). And many of our tourists still can not forget the advertising slogan on the Coca-Cola shield: "Into the creature" (this is not what you thought it means "perfect creation").

Super-Vaclav rushes to help

The readers of Cosmopolitan, probably, the impression was that in the Czech Republic, more accurately, the arrogant, incomprehensible Gop Style people. But it's not at all! Czechs are a very friendly and educated people. He herself was convinced when she took the dog to walk. "Waste of dog-made" in Europe is customary to collect in a special bag and attribute to the garbage (we remember with you that the trash in the Czech Republic is "oddad"). For violators, this rule is watching superhero, more precisely Super-Vaclav (we are in the Czech Republic. ). He makes the owners pick up the "weapon of mass defeat" with his hands and carry home. And those who do not do it, deceives this very weapon, while smiling friendly and sentenced "Dick Moots", "Dick E Mouse", "Fact Yo? "
Walking through Prague, choose expressions! And "shame! Police Varuye "(" Attention! Police warns ").

Czech Republic is a state with a centuries-old history. There are more than 2 thousand foreign castles and all kinds of medieval structures on the territory of the republic, which attract tourists from all countries of the world. After another exciting excursion, you can drink a glass of the best beer in the world, which is famous for the Czech Republic. Also in this country there are excellent ski resorts and mineral springs, Karlovy Vary's water has special popularity among tourists. There is a very kind and responsive people, and having a phrasebook under hand, you can easily talk with passersby, and learn from them a lot of interesting things about the Czech Republic.

You can download such a phrasebook on our website. It consists of several topics, with the translation of the most common words and phrases.

The necessary phrases and expressions are the topic that includes important words and phrases for a tourist.

Appeals

General phrases

At customs

In public places

In transport

At the hotel

Emergencies

Money

In the shop

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With this topic, you will find the necessary words in order to call someone to help, ask how to go to the place of interest to you, apologize, thank, and much more.

Greetings and formulas of courtesy - Thanks to this topic, you can tie a conversation with passersby, ask where you can say where you are, as well as, politely answer any question.

The search for mutual understanding is words that will help you communicate with local residents. You can ask to speak slower, ask if a person says in Russian or in English, and the like words and phrases.

Standard requests are the transfer of the most common requests and their pronunciation.

Passport control and customs are answers to the most common questions during passport control and when customs passage.

Hotel - words and answers to frequently asked questions when settled in the hotel. In addition, with the help of this topic you can order food to the room, ask to remove in the room, etc.

Taxi - a list of phrases that will be included in the taxi. Opening this topic, you can order a taxi, explain where you need to go and find out how much fare will cost.

Shopping - Not one tourist can not spend your vacation without buying something to memory. But in order to gain something you need to know what it is and how much it costs. This list of questions and phrases will help you handle buying any product, from food to souvenirs.

Inscriptions - Translation of frequently occurring signs, pointers, inscriptions, and the like.

Today, the study of the Czech language is gradually in fashion among our compatriots. And the reason for this not least serves the fact that Czech refers to the West Slavic language group, which means it has a lot in common with Russian. Literally in a few minutes of staying in the Czech Republic, you will begin to understand the meaning of many signs, the value of individual words and expressions, and after a few days you will certainly be able to throw a pair of phrases with local residents.
It is especially lucky to those who know another Slavic language, for example, Ukrainian: these travelers will be able to almost free to understand most conversations on household topics.
And yet, before plunge into the language environment, let's get to know her features.

All Slavic languages \u200b\u200bhave one common source - the tongue of Staroslavansky, whose distributors have become all famous Kirill and Methodius. However, if the Russian alphabet inherited the so-called Cyrillic writing of letters, then in the Czech Republic as a European country began to use Latin, adapting it to the peculiarities of the local previously existing language with the help of adhesive signs - apostrophes and acute. The apostrophes raised over consonants in order to designate their hardness (for example, the word Lekař (doctor) sounds like a "dish up") and over the vowel "E" to designate the softness of the previous consonant. Akuta, looking like a sign of accent, is to designate long vowels (Á, é, í, ó, ý). To designate a long "U", a small circle was put on it (ů). These rules exist in Czech to this day.
Unlike Russian, Czech language retained a large number of archaic forms. For example, in addition to six major case of nouns names, there is still a so-called form of a challenge case, which is an analogue of which in Russian is an appeal.

A few words about the peculiarities of pronunciation in Czech. First of all, it should be noted that, unlike Russian, the emphasis here always falls at the first syllable (in multi-size words there is an additional stress). Now about what sounds correspond to individual letters:
the letter "C" corresponds to the sound [C],
č is pronounced as [h],
The combination of letters ch refers to one sound - [x],
The sound of the letter "H" reminds Ukrainian [g], which in Russian has been preserved in the exclamation of "Wow!",
"Ř" means either the sound [RJ], or [RSH], depending on its position in the word,
"Š" sounds like [sh],
"Ž" sounds like [F],
"J" sounds like [th],
The letter "ň" corresponds to the sound [n].
In addition, there is a huge number of nuances associated with pronunciation, tell about which within one article is simply not possible.

It would be nice, of course, to know a few words and expressions that can be useful in different situations - when communicating with the hotel staff, restaurant, shop and others.
Here is small phrasebookcontaining the most common of them:

Official
Good morning! - Dobré Ráno! [Dose early!]
Good day! - Dobrý Den! [Dobry Dan!]
How are you / having fun? - JAK SE MATE / MAŠ? [Yak SE MATE / MASH?]
Thank you, good - Děkuji, Dobře [Diekui, Guess]
My name is ... - JMENUJI SE ... [Yeanui SE ...]
Bye! - Na Shledanou! [On Schladano!]
Morning - Ráno [Early]
After lunch - ODPOLEDNE [ODPOLADNE]
Evening - Večer [Wecher]
Night - NOC [NTS]
Today - DNES [DNES]
Yesterday - Včera [V.]
Tomorrow - Zitra [Zitra]
Are you talking in Russian (English, German)? - Mluvíte Ruština (Anglicky, Německy?) [Mlouwitina Rushtina (English, German)?]
I do not understand - Nerozumím [NE Rosemim]
Please repeat once again - řekněte to ještě jadnou, Prosim [Rzhentehe then IS'Shti please
Thank you - Děkuji [Diekeu]
Please - Prosim [ask]
Who / What is KDO / CO [GDO / TSO]
What - Jaký [Yaki]
Where / Where - KDE / KAM [GDE / Kam]
How / How much - jak / kolik [yak / colic]
How long / when? - Jak Dlouho / Kdy? [Yak Dludgo / Gdi]
Why? - Proč? [Other?]
How is it in Czech? - Jak Ten to Česky? [Yak Tenne is Cesky?]
could you help me? - Můžete Mi Pomoci? [Muzheti mugs?]
Yes / No - ANO / NE [ANO / No]
Sorry - Promiňte [Prominte]

Tourist
Do tourists give here? - Je Tu Turistická Informace? [What is the TRAVER INFORMA?]
I need a city plan / Hotel list - Máte Plan Města / Seznam Hotelů? [Maten Mattime / Senses Wanted]
When does a museum / church open / the exhibition? - KDY JE OTEVRENY MUSEUM / KOSTEL / VýSTAVA? [CDA Evrzhen Museum / Couple / Exhibition?]

In the shop
Where can I find… ? - Kde Dostanu ...? [GDE will get ...?]
How much is? - Kolik to Stoji? [Colik then stoi?]
It's too expensive - to Je Moc Drahé [then Ye Moz Drage]
Do not / like - Ne / Libi [NE / Lubi]
Do you have this thing another color / size? - Máte to Ještě V Jiné Barvě / Velikosti? [MATE TO YESHTE IN INE BARVIE / GENITELY?]
I take it - vezmu si to [Vsemu i then]
Give me 100 g cheese / 1 kg of oranges - Dejte Mi Dest Deka Sýra / Jadno Kilo Pomerančů [Date Mi Daest Dae Sira / Jedno Kilo Pomeranch]
Do you have newspapers? - Máte noviny? [Mate Novina?]

In a restaurant
Menu, please - Jidelní Listek, Prosím [Yindeli Litek ask]
Bread - Chléb [CHLEB]
Tea - Čaj [Tea]
Coffee - Káva [Kava]
With milk / sugar - s mlékem / cukrem [with mpkom / troops]
Orange Juice - Pomerančova Št'áva [Pomeranchova Potyava]
White Wine / Red / Pink - Vino Bile / Červené / Růžové [Bile / Cherwanese Wine / Ruzhove]
Limonad - Limonáda [Lemonade]
Beer - Pivo [Beer]
Water - Voda [Water]
Mineral water - Mineralní Voda [Mineania Water]
Soup - Polévka [Steel]
Fish - Ryba [Fish]
Meat - Maso [MAS]
Salad - Salát [Salad]
Dessert - Dezert [Dezza]
Fruit - Ovoce [Ovoot]
Ice cream - ZMRZLINA [ZMZLINA]
Breakfast - Snidaně [Didnight]
Lunch - Oběd [Oban]
Dinner - Večeře [Viecherzhe]
Account, please - účet Prosím [Clamp, ask]

At the hotel
I ordered your room - Mám u Vás Reservaci [Mom you have razervatsi]
Is there a double room? - Máte Volný dvoulůžkovy Pokoj? [MEE VOLNY DRAKEVOZHKOV REGENTS?]
With balcony - s balkónem? [With Balcony]
With shower and toilet - SE SPRCHOU A WC [SE SPRKOU A WEPE]
What is the cost of the room per night? - Kolik Stojí Pokoj Na Noc? [Colik Stoi rest on NAC?]
With breakfast? - SE SNIDANI? [SE REDUCH?]
Can I inspect the room? - Mohu SE Podívat Na Pokoj? [Can there be podaivat on peace?]
Is there another room? - Máte Ještě Jiný Pokoj? [Mate Ishima, peace?]
Where can I park? - Kde Mohu Parkovat? [I can park?]
Bring my baggage, please - Můžete Donést Moje Zavazadlo Na Pokoj Prosím? [Human Money Donette my waw on peace ask?]

Different situations
Where is the Bank / Exchange Point? - KDE JE TADY BANK / VYMÉNý PUNKT? [GDE Ye Tada Bank / Clean Item?]
Where is the phone? - Kdye Mogu Telefonovat? [I can phone call?]
Where to buy a telephone card? - KDE Mohu Dostat Telefonni Kartu? [Where can I get a phone card?]
I need a doctor / dentist - Potřebuji Lékaře / Zubaře [Potsturbui Lachase / Zubrzhe]
Call "Copy Help" / Police - Zavolejte Prosím Zachrannu Službu / Policii [Zavolé, please chosen service / police]
Where is the police station? - KDE JE POLICEJNí KOMISARSTVí? [GDE E Police Commissioning?]
I was stolen ... - Ukradli Mně ... [stolen Mnier ...]

Download and print phrasebook (format.doc), which will be useful to you on the trip.

A bit of history
Each national language is directly connected both with a separate person, on it speaking and with all the people as a whole. And, like people, he has a property to change over time - to develop or, on the contrary, to fluff, experience the influence of other languages, to transform its own rules in every way and so on.
Before finding your current appearance, Czech has undergone a variety of diverse reforms and improvements. However, the most interesting fact from his history is, perhaps, the fact that he became the official state language twice. At first in the XV century, after the main literary norms and rules were formed, and then at the beginning of the century twentieth. Why so happened, you ask. The thing is that at the beginning of the XVII century, after the fateful battle at the White Mountain, the Czech Republic has been located in the powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire, which ruled representatives of the German House of Habsburgs. In order to strengthen its power in the captured states, Habsburgs tried to strengthen the influence of German in these territories. Despite the fact that the members of the government were chosen from the circles of the German nobility, the main population of the Czech Republic still spoke in their native language, moreover, he continued to develop: the books and treatises were published on Czech, grammatical rules were formed, and at the end of the XIX century were published First Czech Encyclopedia.
By the way, traces of the historical past are noticeable in the Czech Republic and to this day: there are still tourists who speak German, they understand better than those who own English. In 1918 there was a decay of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, an independent Republic of Czechoslovakia was founded, and two years later, Czech language (if more precisely, Czechoslovak) re-acquired the status of the official.

Words - deceivers
Despite the fact that Russian and Czech languages \u200b\u200bhave a very strong similarity in the vocabulary and the meaning of most words can be determined simply on the Nativity, there are many so-called deferrators in Czech. Such words sounded or writes almost the same as in Russian, but have a completely different meaning. So, for example, the word "STůL" indicates the table, "Čerstvý" - fresh, and "Smetana" - cream. Most often, the difference of values \u200b\u200bcauses just a slight bewilderment, but there are cases when it is the cause of the rapid fun of our fellow citizens. It is not surprising, because when you find out that in order to buy a fashionable dress in the store, you need to ask Roba (Czech. "Roba"), the phrase "pleasant smell" does not exist in principle, because the word "zapach" means stench ( This perfume in Czech sounds like "Iapplections"), and "Pitomec" - no domestic favorite at all, and a fool, - to keep the smile is simply not possible.

Entertaining statistics
Many linguists argue that language statistics - not such a useless occupation as it may seem at first glance. In particular, according to the ratings of the frequency of the use of certain parts of speech or even their percentage, it is possible to obtain some (albeit the incomplete) idea of \u200b\u200bthe psychology of people speaking in one language.
What he, the national character of the Czech people, will give the right to judge you. We picked up here the results of some statistical studies of the Czech language and set them down by some interesting linguistic facts.

The most commonly used words in Czech language:
A (alliances "and", "a" and "but"), Být (be, to be), Ten (one), V (prepositions "on", "software", "in"), on (pronoun He "), Na (prepositions" K "," B "," For "," From "), že (prepositions" from "," from "), s (SE) (preposition" C "), z (ze ) (Preposition "from"), který (which, which).

The most common nouns in Czech language:
Pan (Pán) (Mr. (in front of last name)), život (Life), člověk (person), práce (work, business), RUKA (hand), Den (day, date), Zem (Země) (Country), Lidé (People), Doba (period, century, it's time), Hlava (Head).

The most common verbs in Czech language:
Být (to be), Mít (have, possess), Moci (be able to be able), Muset (be obligated to do anything, must), vědět (know, be able to), chtít (want, wish), jít (go ), říci (say), vidět (see), Dát SE (start, for example, Dat Se Do Pláče - start crying).

The most common adjectives in Czech language:
Celý (all, whole, full), Velký (Veliký) (large), Nový (new), Starý (old), Český (Czech, Czech), Dobrý (good, kind), malý (small), MOžný ( Possible, feasible, probable), živý (živ) (alive, cheerful, tever).

If we talk about the frequency of use
Most synonyms describes the character hardness: Pevný, trvanlivý, odolný, solidní, bytelný, nezdolný, nezmarný, silný, tuhý, kompaktní, hutný, nehybný, nepohyblivý, stanovený, nezměnitelný, neměnný, stálý, ustálený, fixní, stabilní, trvalý, zajištěný, jistý, bezpečný, nepoddajný , Nezlomný, Nezdolný, Neoblomný, Nesmlouvavý, Houževnatý, Sukovitý, Neožhvějný, Rázný, Rozhodný, Důrazný, Odhodlaný, Energický, Prosbojný, PRůRAZNý, TVRDý, Hluboký.
The longest word without vowels: scvrnklý (beastful, wrinkled).
The longest word that can be read on the right left: Nepochopen (misunderstanding).

As for the frequency of use of different parts of speech in Czech language, here the rating of popularity turned out the following: the first place was taken by the names of the nouns (38.93%), the first were the verbs (27.05%), the third was adjective (20.98%) , fourth - adverbs (9.04%), the rest of the place with a small separation of each other shared pronouns, numeral, unions and prepositions. And the least, the Czechs use interjections - they are only 0.36%. Here is such an entertaining statistics!

It is said that in Russia today is not fashionable and expensive. Many brave and desperates go to live and work abroad to distant countries, but many of us, possessing a certain sentimentality, and fearing nostalgia, prefer to leave, but not far. Where to? Right, to Europe! Choose the country closer, and, desirable, Slavic. One of these is the Czech Republic.

Do you need to know them

Arriving here, you need to say something, but how? Is it difficult to learn at least minimum of Czech phrases? By the way, Czech is one of the richest Slavic languages \u200b\u200bin the world. For comparison, there are about 130 thousand words in Russian, and in Czech - more than 250 thousand. Phrases in Czech language to us, Slavs, intuitively understandable, although many words have a certain cunning. For example, the Russian word "beautiful" sounds on Czech as "terrible", the word "fresh" sounds like "worn" and the like.

But not only who left the Motherland will have to nourish the textbook on Czech. Today, the study of this language has become simply a fashion trend among the Russians. Those who still know some Slavic language will even easier to understand the Chekhov and learn a little phrases in Czech language.

Many are sent to the Czech Republic for receiving education. This is one of the few countries of Europe, where you can pass on a free basis, and the quality of the knowledge gained will be at the highest level within the world scale. Therefore, to know the main phrases. Future students are obliged as no other.

Where will be suitable

Czech will need everyone who deals with translations - guides, diplomats, translators working both in the country and abroad.

For tourists to learn several phrases in Czech will not be any difficulty. And serving staff at the hotel, and the waiter in the restaurant will be pleased to hear the phrase in their native language. And if you, God forbid, get lost in the city, general phrases will help you understand how to go through the right address, because tongue to Kiev will bring. And the Czech language is not complicated at all, and it is not only easy to teach it, but also fun, especially in a friendly company!

Those who are going to rest in the Czech capital will be very useful to familiarize themselves with our detailed manual, affordable by reference, in which it describes in detail how to properly organize his journey to Prague so that it is interesting, safe and did not go beyond your budget. In a few minutes, you need to read the article, you will learn how to save a significant amount of money at all not tightened.

Will the Czechs understand Russian

Czech Republic is one of the most popular destinations for Russians, and most of the Czechs living in tourist areas will be perfectly understood. Yes, and in other cities there should be no problems ... The opening of the borders after the collapse of the Soviet Union contributed to the influx of emigrants to the Czech Republic, and many Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians left to live in this country. So the Russians will understand in the restaurant, and in the store, and on the street. The main thing when communicating do not forget that goodwill and smile on the face is a disarming tool for starting absolutely any communication.