@@adamkrizek7596 And there comes the good old Charles IV making an exception. In 1348 he founded Charles University and laid the foundation stone of the Karlštejn castle
Charles IV. Absolutely love the guy. We love him so much he got second place in our "Greatest Czech" poll, and only ended up winning on a technicality. The Czech Television, the organiser of the poll, decided to disqualify the rightful winner, Jaroslav "Jára" Cimrman, on the cowardly basis of him being utterly and entirely fictional.
Too bad he often overshadows the much more important man, Přemysl Otakar II. the King of Iron and Gold, who actually was a true Czech through the male line and not a half-Luxembourger educated in France, renamed after the French king, who only ruled the land by adjacence, and was only Czech through the female line, and forcibly separated from the influence of his mother by his father to prevent Premyslid influence from shaping him. The dude is overhyped, like many Czech national heroes tend to be, while true Czech giants remain half-forgotten.
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@@EatinHerOutOfficial-kc6dn As a descendant of Ukrainians from Southern Siberia (blame the Mongols), Northern Italian gentry, and German settlers, I say that old Chuck was as much Czech as the rest of us. We're all mongrels and mutts, anyway, and stronger for it.
@@EatinHerOutOfficial-kc6dn He was born in Prague and always felt like a true Czech and he loved Bohemia and his Přemyslid ancestry. Also technically PO2 was half Czech too (his mother was german)
@whynousernamelol That's true Czechs are one of the most genetically diverse nations in Europe. Some study even said we're like third slavic, third germanic-celtic, 10% nordic and the rest are various other groups (jewish, south europe, etc). I mean we're the center, so it makes sense
@@CzechinwithBryan you don't have to go to Moravia, "štyry" is quite common informal word for (literary) "čtyři" all around the Czechia. I mean, you don't have to go to Moravia just because of this :-).
As a Czech I would paraphrase the sentence from one of Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy books to give you final message to our language creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.'... 😊
As a native speaker I can explain, the word for beer gets shorter and remain the same after first 4 is to make it easier on people after they start getting plastered .
Bro I was laughing so much 😂. Awesome theory! 😃 And btw, German is the same for outsiders- they have completely different sense of decinding what's masculine and what feminine 💀
Czech here. You can say "pět roků", though it's more prevalent in Moravia and SIlesia. In Bohemia, you might end up sounding like a child. For some reason, we decided to take the poetic way and for five and up, we switched from years to summers. Indeed, counting milestones isn't exclusive to years: You could say "five weeks". If you wanted to sound more old-school, you say "five sundays". In Russian, "Sunday" replaced "week" completely. Instead of "Sunday", they have "resurrection" now. Cats may have nine lives, but Russians have 52 resurrections in one year! Or is it summer...?
I feel it more as "refreshment/rest" (from the Bible, Genesis) than "ressurection". Or I was told so by my russian teacher, I don't remember. For non-czech: russian "voskresenye" (sunday) has the same origin/sounds similar to czech "vzkříšení" (ressurection).
Reinhard Heydrich characterised us Czechs as "Beasts who mock you in you face behind your back, and shake your hand heartily while they stab you in the back".
That's a great sense of humour :D btw you can actually say 5 roků instead of 5 let it just sounds a bit childish :D For example a famous novel "100 Years of Solitude" is actually called "100 roků samoty" in Czech not "100 let samoty" and that for some reason doesn't sound childish at all :D
"5 roků" is definitely more old-timey sounding. I don't know exactly when saying "5 let" became a thing but I imagine a hundred years ago it was acceptable to say "5 roků". Hence the czech translation of this book and also the famous poem by Petr Bezruč: "Sto roků v šachtě žil, mlčel jsem..." Or perhaps it's specific to one hundred? Who knows...
:-)) Very funny. I whole-heartedly agree that Czech is totally _ridiculously_ complex; and this isn’t just a feeling-years ago, the famous Jára Cimrman theatre group gave a televised public Czech language test (several of them are/were former teachers). Something like 60% of us, Czechs participating, failed… I have enormous respect for foreigners who try to learn our niche language.
Man, you broke me 😀As a Czech I love your style of humour. Some things I have never thought about especially everything to do with number four. Great video and thank you
Clarification about the word "year": It's gramatically correct to use both "rok" and "léto" with any number. It's just that some combinations are more common than others in various contexts. If you don't "follow the crowd" you will sound either poetic or childish, but again it wouldn't be a grammatical error. Also the "rule" for when to use "rok" vs "léto" is a bit more complex than you describe - for example it depends on the tense: people would usually say "před dvěmi/třemi/čtyřmi lety" = "two/three/four years ago", but "za dva/tři/čtyři roky" = "in two/three/four years".
"před dvěmi/třemi/čtyřmi lety" = "two/three/four years ago", but "za dva/tři/čtyři roky" = "in two/three/four years". Tpč, fakt že jo a přitom jsem si to nikdy neuvědomil, že to tak dělám.
@@Pidalin It's not that hard, you only need to remember these two sentences: Can you lend me the book? Can I borrow the book? The result is the same, me, getting the book from somebody. The only difference is WHO is doing the action, either he / she giving me the book or me taking it from him / her. With his /her consent, of course! 😁 That's all. 😉 And don't let me start on present perfect. It acctually isn't hard at all, the problem is, that it is taught wrong here, after the past tense. That way we Czechs fixate on using past tense for everything happenning in the past and don't understand what present perfect is for when we are introduced to it. I believe, if we were taught present perfect first, it would be ok. We would use it all the time as it is being used in everyday English and then we would simply learn to add past simple / continuous for the situations and only for them when we know exactly WHEN they happened.
When you mentioned Charles IV. I was thinking to myself - "tread carefully my friend!" 😀 And you are absolutely right - the language itself is totally trying to break you, however not the people. If you, a foreigner, try to say like one czech word we absolutely love it and admire it, because I dare say majority of czech native speakers have trouble with the language, so if non-native speaker shows effort to learn at least a bit of language spoken by like 0,1% of global population, you really have to respect that!
Chech viewer here. This video is really hilarious! :D It's obviously not aimed towards accuracy, more than anything it's aiming to be funny. And it is! I laughed multiple times. Couple clarifications: No, Charles the IVth is not that deep with the connection of the number 4. If anything, all of those are merely just coincidence. Velvet revolution happened because there was nothing to sustain the socialism in the country. Constant troubles with the economy, long lines for everything, and people were fed up with everything. They were longing for a change. And with USSR changing as well, and becoming more and more open, it was only a matter of time. It's a coincidence that it happened 4 years after Rocky IV came out. But I must admit, that there might be something to it. Perhaps Rocky Balboa was the spark that started the change. Anyway, I don't know exactly the linguistic behind the numbering, I just know that we have two plural forms, and one of them is only for 2-4 quantities, while the other is for 5+. Not sure why it's that, but Charles the IVth is not the culprit. But historically speaking, he was like the father of the nation. The university that's named after him? He actually gave permission and blessing to build it. It's literally his university. Yeah. The bridge has begun its building during Charles' reign. Again, he was the one who ordered to build the bridge. Charles did so much for our nation that him being portrayed on our 100 Kč bill and having so many statues of him and so many of his achivements around preserved is probably not enough to gratify his enormous legacy. But the numbers don't have anything to do with that.
2024 (and every year ending with 4) is actually the czech year of music, because a lot of famous czech musicians were born/died/composed something either on the 4th day of a month, in april, or in a year ending with 4.
Actually many languages have different plurals for nouns... Including all slavic languages, but also baltic languages and many more :) And you can say "pět roků"... people say "pět let" because it's kinda easier I think :)
I betrayed the Czech language (which "is"/was my primary language) by learning English a long time ago and never stopping. It's funny how many words I forget nowadays (well, I do know what the words are I just have a hard time figuring out what to say)
5:00 in Polish you change the word immediately 1 year - rok 2 years - dwa lata "lata" is plural of "lato" which means "summer". You can find sometimes "dwa roki" but it sounds very old fashioned.
And to throw more into the “year” talk… 4 roky, 5 let, 6 let… but 6.5 years is “6 a půl roku” so we go back to using “rok” even though we are past the magical number 5.
Oh my, now I feel stupid that I got the joke about Rocky all the way at 7:12 my brain didn't connect roky and Rocky until then. I bursted out laughing at myself :D
Fan facts in Czech because im czech 🇨🇿: 1. Karel IV se původně jmenoval Václav. 2. Existuje český animovaný film o Karlu čtvrtém se známými českými postavami z komiksů čtyřlístek.
The reason for some of the problems you will come across is that modern czech is based on an 500 years old form of itself that was artificially adapted to form the new czech language (what we use now), which itself is 250 or so years old, so a lot of the natural development was cut out, creating all sorts of problems (and also its just really wierd if that wasn't enough)
@@why9648 it would be a dead language by now, or a mix of dying dialects with a number of speakers too low to keep alive, there certainly wouldn't be one unified language
I will be real as a czech I have never really thought about that, we do that huh asgasaksj. I was giggling to myself while I watched this but honestly it was very interesting to see what foreigners struggle with.
I really don't know why under 5 we say rok/roky, but above 5 the word "let" is derived from Czech "léto", which means summer and so you say "5 summers" basically, sometimes people do the same in a week, instead of saying "3 týdny" they'll say "3 neděle) as in "3 sundays"
Props to this guy for trying to even learn this mess :D And hey, dont worry about it. All throughout elementary and high school I got Cs and Ds from Czech exams. I learned how to properly use grammar in written sentences thanks to auto-correcting phones when I was about 17 and I just brute forced my way into not sounding like an absolute idiot. English? That was straight As for me for some reason. Born in Czechia, to Czech parents that didn´t speak any other language. Also - ordering 9 shots instead of 2 shots might be the most Czech thing that ever was (in Moravia at least) so you are getting there!
Love your humor 😂 Léta and roky are inerchangable in this context. You can say dvě léta and šest roků and it is perfectly fine. You can also use other seasons like jara or zimy if you wanna mix it up and feel fancy.
I can confirm that Karel IV. (Charles the fourth) is indeed someone to never joke about. However there's one more Karel not to be joked about and that's Karel (or as Czechs say Kája) Gott.
Czech numbers sometimes do other weird things. You can say "třetice, čtveřice, pětice" to mean a group of 3, 4, or 5 things, or the 3rd, 4th, 5th iteration of something, but you usually cannot do this with larger numbers, such as 10 (deset, desetice; desetice is a word you will never hear). The strange thing is the cutoff seems to be around number 6. Šestice is still sometimes heard but sedmice (7 things), I have never heard in my life.
As for the years. You can use the word 5 ROKŮ, 6 ROKŮ. The word ROK means just year. Grammatically it is correct. It has just become customary to use the word LÉTO, which means summer, for more than five. You can also say 1 LÉTO, 2 LÉTA, 5 LET. They are two different words. The problem with 1 LÉTO is that we don't know if you mean a whole year or just one summer. If you say 5 ROKŮ, it's unusual but clearly understandable.
Fun fact, in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan the number 4 is believed to be unlucky and a sign of death. So you might not be that far off with thinking that it's magical in Czech. It very well might be.
“rok” (year) and “léto” (summer) are two different nouns and can both be used interchangeably for counting years. “Pět let” (five summers) and “pět roků” (five years) are both perfectly correct to use. “Jeden rok” (one year) and “jedno léto” (one summer) not so much, though. The latter describes a time of just one particular summer. Anyways, excuse my rudeness, please. I appreciate both your humour and the interest in our language. I genuinely like your video. Looking forward to seeing the next one ❤ :) ( Eager to correct you passionately when the chance comes, of course 😅
Nah, look, it's perfectly simple. Just watch your numeral endings and it's revealed immediately. Vowels: JednO pivo (ends in vowel), dvĚ piva (ends in vowel), třI piva (ends in vowel), čtyřI piva (ends in vowel), pěT piv (ends in consonant), šesT piv (ends in consonant), sedM piv (ends in consonant)... you get the gist. It works flawlessly until one hundred where there is a bit of a hiccup with stO piv, and there's also the masculine gender throwing it off a bit for jedeN, but otherwise that's the only rule you need to keep in mind.
Czech language making violent numbers on foreign speakers. :D My guess for changing roots would be the fact that Czech fluently combines western and eastern influence. You could count years without changing the root actually. But saying "Jedno léto, dvě léta, tři léta, čtyři léta, pět let" and so on sounds really archaic. Or you can go with "roků" past 4 resulting in "pět roků, šest roků" which is technically possible, but nobody speaks like that. :D It's a similar problem as with english that's being taught in our schools. Technically correct, but you'll never hear a native speaker say a word like "Qualitative". It's like having a huge "FOREIGNER" sign taped to your forehead.
Hey sweetie, long time no see. I'm still "stuck" in Bournemouth but getting back to Prague one day is on my bucket list 😁I have Czech neighbours here, so I practice my pathetic Czech with them while helping them with their English 😇Great to see your videos😘
If you're trying to learn Czech, you're incredibly brave! Not even all Czechs speak Czech perfectly. But here's a secret: with imperfect pronunciation and bad grammar, you'll sound adorable-at least "I'll buy you a drink" level of cute. That's the magic of our language!
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th... Also a lot of rule exceptions or entire rules are made to make the language more "euphonic". Thats why you have dvě piva but also dvacet-dva piv and not dva piv or dvacet-dvě piva.
The difference from 4 to 5 in plural usage doesn't have to do much with Czech language itself. It's a common human thing. It seems like 4 or 5 is like the limit to concrete numbers and then it simply is an abstract lot. It can be observable in Roman numerals and also in other languages. In Czech you say "A lot of beers" but you concretize the "a lot", so you can get "five of beers".
I'm czech, never lived anywhere else and I don't think I ever heard anyone say 5 roků, except for kids still figuring out the language. It's technically correct but not used normally.
Karel IV. isn't so threatening, he's Karel 4th, not Karel 4 and 4th is "čtvrtý" so without "ř". But on the other hand, in čtvrtý only last letter is vowel, so maybe... :D
numbers are considered magical all over the world and differ with cultures, but the really significant are almost always divisible by 4. 4, 8 and 12 specially. 4 is also very interesting in east asia as it sounds simillar to "death" and have many conotations as our 13. there are usually no 4th floors in hotels as nobody would ever reserve them.
00:59 Asking for 1 shot you'd say "jednoho panáka" not "jeden panák" - the context is (I want/you have) "jednoho panáka" or (there is) "jeden panák" 05:05 You can also say 5+ "roků" (less common, but perfectly understood). "let" is derived from "léto", which means "summer" - so if you say "5 let" you are, literally translated, saying "5 summers", normally that is understood as "5 years". I'll let myself out.
@@CzechinwithBryan Technically, your "jeden panák" is more correct from the codified grammar POV. But kkaryk is right pragmatically, as the less formal way to use this expression - and ordering shots at the bar certainly lends itself to informal lingo - is to treat the semantically inanimate panák as a grammatically animate noun, yielding "jednoho panáka". Pragmatics in linguistics is fun :)
As a Czech, I agree that our obssesion with the number 4 is odd 😁 I realized it too, but through rap I listen to a lot of Czech rap, and a lot of rappers use 4 a lot in their texts, in parables and examples 😁 it's weird but it just works 😂
I guess the use of léto for those higher numbers of years is rooted from the medieval times, where peasants would measure time by natural things, so if 5 summers passed, it was 5 let, so in this case it's somewhat interchangeable. Although it's grammatically correct to use both words for any given number, if you only use the word léto, you sound like an 18th century poet, and if you use only the word rok, you sound like you're from the Silesian region, because that's how it is in the dialect (I personally also say 5, 10, 15 roků instead of let). In the formal form of the language, that 4-5 system is a standard, anything mentioned above would sound informal or archaic. Also, if you're having problems with pronouncing the word čtyři, you can informalise it by saying štyry. It's not formal but it's used in day to day conversations (the Czech language has three officially recognised forms, 1) literary Czech 2) general Czech 3) informal Czech; 1 and 2 are considered formal, although they work a little bit differently - 1 you see in books and hear with politicians and 2 you hear in ordinary people having a conversation, 3 is a nono, because that's the form used by rude drunks and cheeky teens).
I, as a Czech, clicked on this video (a little bit confused but intrigued) thinking it’s gonna be about some conspiracy theories. It didn’t occur to me it’s just poor foreigners fighting for their lives with our beautiful language lmao. Had a great time watching this
Lovely! I am a Czech, of course. :) And a secret for you only, Polish is the same, even without Charles IV (Karel Čtvrtý), who actually was King Charles I. ;)
@@CzechinwithBryan Hi there, as a Czech king he should have been Charles I., but he was also the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and as such he was Charles IV.
Karel is important maximaly in Prague. In Ostrava we have another more famous historic persons. Karel is not mentioned almost anywhere.here in Ostrava 😂
Do you agree with me that some Czech numbers are dangerous/magical? Which are your favourites?
I hate to be the guy, but I might as well direct you towards a new rabbit hole. Do you think 4 is SUS? Look at the number 8 throughout our history :)
@@Scroapy Ok I will, it's too tempting not to now:)
Years ending with the number 8 to be more precise
@@adamkrizek7596 And there comes the good old Charles IV making an exception. In 1348 he founded Charles University and laid the foundation stone of the Karlštejn castle
@@pavelgrulich2989 bruh 1348 ends with 8..
Charles IV. Absolutely love the guy. We love him so much he got second place in our "Greatest Czech" poll, and only ended up winning on a technicality. The Czech Television, the organiser of the poll, decided to disqualify the rightful winner, Jaroslav "Jára" Cimrman, on the cowardly basis of him being utterly and entirely fictional.
Thanks for the comment, I remember the poll, must say that Cimrman is cool too:)
Too bad he often overshadows the much more important man, Přemysl Otakar II. the King of Iron and Gold, who actually was a true Czech through the male line and not a half-Luxembourger educated in France, renamed after the French king, who only ruled the land by adjacence, and was only Czech through the female line, and forcibly separated from the influence of his mother by his father to prevent Premyslid influence from shaping him. The dude is overhyped, like many Czech national heroes tend to be, while true Czech giants remain half-forgotten.
@@EatinHerOutOfficial-kc6dn As a descendant of Ukrainians from Southern Siberia (blame the Mongols), Northern Italian gentry, and German settlers, I say that old Chuck was as much Czech as the rest of us. We're all mongrels and mutts, anyway, and stronger for it.
@@EatinHerOutOfficial-kc6dn He was born in Prague and always felt like a true Czech and he loved Bohemia and his Přemyslid ancestry.
Also technically PO2 was half Czech too (his mother was german)
@whynousernamelol That's true Czechs are one of the most genetically diverse nations in Europe. Some study even said we're like third slavic, third germanic-celtic, 10% nordic and the rest are various other groups (jewish, south europe, etc). I mean we're the center, so it makes sense
Czech is the language spoken in Heaven. Why? Because it takes an eternity to learn!
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Next station:Bohemia❤ 😂
Took me a few months. Its easier when youre a baby
@@AdoraVivos lol same
You suffered from our beautiful language when ordering liquor. We suffered throughout entire middle school during exams. 😂
😂🙂, ok I feel for you, it wasn't so bad drinking all those shots:)
To avoid pronouncing “čtyři”, you can say “štyry”. That is an informal dialectal form generally well understood, at least in Moravia.
Ok thanks, going to Moravia in a few weeks so this will be useful!
@@CzechinwithBryan you don't have to go to Moravia, "štyry" is quite common informal word for (literary) "čtyři" all around the Czechia. I mean, you don't have to go to Moravia just because of this :-).
or instead of dvě piva - dvakrát (twice, literally two times) pivo - usable for other numbers too
@@CzechinwithBryan awesome, your slivovica practice will come in handy 😀
Thanks for the advice.
As a Czech I would paraphrase the sentence from one of Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy books to give you final message to our language creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.'... 😊
😄😂
For me, as a Czech, it's funny. But I understand that it's really hard for you. I appreciate your effort and passion all the more.
Thanks for the comment, I appreciate this!
it's a revenge for present perfect and TH clusters in English and ofcourse articles 😀
I gotta say, the Let 5 wordplay is utterly brilliant. It’s something a native would not think about, so it’s great we have you.
Thank you so much, it's been in my head for a while:)
As a native speaker I can explain, the word for beer gets shorter and remain the same after first 4 is to make it easier on people after they start getting plastered .
That makes sense, thanks:)
Bro I was laughing so much 😂. Awesome theory! 😃
And btw, German is the same for outsiders- they have completely different sense of decinding what's masculine and what feminine 💀
Thanks:)
Czech here. You can say "pět roků", though it's more prevalent in Moravia and SIlesia. In Bohemia, you might end up sounding like a child. For some reason, we decided to take the poetic way and for five and up, we switched from years to summers.
Indeed, counting milestones isn't exclusive to years: You could say "five weeks". If you wanted to sound more old-school, you say "five sundays". In Russian, "Sunday" replaced "week" completely. Instead of "Sunday", they have "resurrection" now. Cats may have nine lives, but Russians have 52 resurrections in one year! Or is it summer...?
Great comment, thanks, it's great to count years as summers and five Sundays is a nice way to refer to five weeks:)
There's a way you're allowed to use "roků". Call yourself Petr Bezruč and live in a mine for one hundred years.
Sto roků v šachtě žil, mlčel jsem...
@@mirilike3965 Tough, you need one hell of a cough for that ;-)
Russians have 52 resurrections, we have 52 days of doing nothing. I see this as an absolute Czech win once again.
I feel it more as "refreshment/rest" (from the Bible, Genesis) than "ressurection". Or I was told so by my russian teacher, I don't remember. For non-czech: russian "voskresenye" (sunday) has the same origin/sounds similar to czech "vzkříšení" (ressurection).
History channels at 3am are like:
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After that Rocky became a pilot, hence the Let 5
🤣😂🤣This is brilliant, I so wish I had thought of this😂.
As an czech native savage. ... I must say....Brilliant ! I love it ! :D
Great! Thank you.
Implying Czechoslovakia was part of Soviet union is not gonna get you many free beers from local population.
Oh yes I'm treading carefully:)
Reinhard Heydrich characterised us Czechs as "Beasts who mock you in you face behind your back, and shake your hand heartily while they stab you in the back".
That's a great sense of humour :D btw you can actually say 5 roků instead of 5 let it just sounds a bit childish :D For example a famous novel "100 Years of Solitude" is actually called "100 roků samoty" in Czech not "100 let samoty" and that for some reason doesn't sound childish at all :D
Thank you very much:)
"5 roků" is definitely more old-timey sounding. I don't know exactly when saying "5 let" became a thing but I imagine a hundred years ago it was acceptable to say "5 roků". Hence the czech translation of this book and also the famous poem by Petr Bezruč: "Sto roků v šachtě žil, mlčel jsem..."
Or perhaps it's specific to one hundred? Who knows...
:-)) Very funny. I whole-heartedly agree that Czech is totally _ridiculously_ complex; and this isn’t just a feeling-years ago, the famous Jára Cimrman theatre group gave a televised public Czech language test (several of them are/were former teachers). Something like 60% of us, Czechs participating, failed… I have enormous respect for foreigners who try to learn our niche language.
Thanks, that is funny, I like this comment and Cimrman is the man!
Cimmrman is the biggest man in the world
*Me, smirking on another foreigner trying to pronounce ŘEŘICHA:* If he dies, he dies.
That's a big challenge:)
Man, you broke me 😀As a Czech I love your style of humour. Some things I have never thought about especially everything to do with number four. Great video and thank you
Thanks a lot😄
Clarification about the word "year": It's gramatically correct to use both "rok" and "léto" with any number. It's just that some combinations are more common than others in various contexts. If you don't "follow the crowd" you will sound either poetic or childish, but again it wouldn't be a grammatical error. Also the "rule" for when to use "rok" vs "léto" is a bit more complex than you describe - for example it depends on the tense: people would usually say "před dvěmi/třemi/čtyřmi lety" = "two/three/four years ago", but "za dva/tři/čtyři roky" = "in two/three/four years".
Thanks for the making that clearer for me with the use of před and za in this context, I appreciate it:)
"před dvěmi/třemi/čtyřmi lety" = "two/three/four years ago", but "za dva/tři/čtyři roky" = "in two/three/four years".
Tpč, fakt že jo a přitom jsem si to nikdy neuvědomil, že to tak dělám.
@@hidesidehs5271 to je fakt zajímavý:)
Actually, it should be written as "před dvěma lety" and not "před dvěmi lety". But I can understand it may be confusing for foreigners.
It's actually hillarious to watch this as a Czech
Thanks:)
@CzechinwithBryan Replying to every comment is serious dedication to be honest 👍
Our language is Czech revenge for English irregular verbs :)
That's fair enough I guess😂
No, it is a revenge for all the phrasal verbs and idioms! 😂
Or for french words in english
@@tonickabolava it's a revenge mainly for present perfect and articles....and also difference between to lend and to borrow, I hate it 😀
@@Pidalin It's not that hard, you only need to remember these two sentences: Can you lend me the book? Can I borrow the book? The result is the same, me, getting the book from somebody. The only difference is WHO is doing the action, either he / she giving me the book or me taking it from him / her. With his /her consent, of course! 😁 That's all. 😉 And don't let me start on present perfect. It acctually isn't hard at all, the problem is, that it is taught wrong here, after the past tense. That way we Czechs fixate on using past tense for everything happenning in the past and don't understand what present perfect is for when we are introduced to it. I believe, if we were taught present perfect first, it would be ok. We would use it all the time as it is being used in everyday English and then we would simply learn to add past simple / continuous for the situations and only for them when we know exactly WHEN they happened.
I'm Czech and I love this video so much. Everyone in the comments as well. Such a brilliant sense of humor
Thank you very much:)
Yeh, I to😂
When you mentioned Charles IV. I was thinking to myself - "tread carefully my friend!" 😀
And you are absolutely right - the language itself is totally trying to break you, however not the people. If you, a foreigner, try to say like one czech word we absolutely love it and admire it, because I dare say majority of czech native speakers have trouble with the language, so if non-native speaker shows effort to learn at least a bit of language spoken by like 0,1% of global population, you really have to respect that!
Thanks for the nice comment, I appreciate it:).
Really amusing video and great storytelling 😅😅 like a stand up comedy
Thank you very much:)
The Rocky (roky) 4 to Let 5 made me laugh like never in my life
😄, thanks for the comment.
Chech viewer here. This video is really hilarious! :D It's obviously not aimed towards accuracy, more than anything it's aiming to be funny. And it is! I laughed multiple times.
Couple clarifications: No, Charles the IVth is not that deep with the connection of the number 4. If anything, all of those are merely just coincidence. Velvet revolution happened because there was nothing to sustain the socialism in the country. Constant troubles with the economy, long lines for everything, and people were fed up with everything. They were longing for a change. And with USSR changing as well, and becoming more and more open, it was only a matter of time. It's a coincidence that it happened 4 years after Rocky IV came out. But I must admit, that there might be something to it. Perhaps Rocky Balboa was the spark that started the change. Anyway, I don't know exactly the linguistic behind the numbering, I just know that we have two plural forms, and one of them is only for 2-4 quantities, while the other is for 5+. Not sure why it's that, but Charles the IVth is not the culprit. But historically speaking, he was like the father of the nation. The university that's named after him? He actually gave permission and blessing to build it. It's literally his university. Yeah. The bridge has begun its building during Charles' reign. Again, he was the one who ordered to build the bridge. Charles did so much for our nation that him being portrayed on our 100 Kč bill and having so many statues of him and so many of his achivements around preserved is probably not enough to gratify his enormous legacy. But the numbers don't have anything to do with that.
Thank you very much, great comment and info, I appreciate it:).
Lol, nice 😀 Greetings from Prague 👻
Thanks!
Man! You make my day! :D
Thanks, I appreciate the comment:)
2024 (and every year ending with 4) is actually the czech year of music, because a lot of famous czech musicians were born/died/composed something either on the 4th day of a month, in april, or in a year ending with 4.
Ok wow, maybe 4 does have strange power:)
Actually many languages have different plurals for nouns... Including all slavic languages, but also baltic languages and many more :)
And you can say "pět roků"... people say "pět let" because it's kinda easier I think :)
Yea, cos English makes complete sense. For example the pronunciation of the "ough" in dough and tough.
That's a total minefield🙂
Predator was a nice touch :D Almost made me spit out my coffee :D
😂Thanks a lot
That was really fun, i've never noticed some of those things. Had a good laught. Thank you!
Thanks a lot:)
*Slavic languages when you try to leaern them:* How about you just don't?
*The czech language:* Fuck it! * creates Ř *
This was brilliant. Thank you for this unconventional take and may you continue in your learning endeavour successfully!
Thank you very much, I appreciate the comment:)
Yep, very tetragrammatonesqe!
Love this video :D
I betrayed the Czech language (which "is"/was my primary language) by learning English a long time ago and never stopping. It's funny how many words I forget nowadays (well, I do know what the words are I just have a hard time figuring out what to say)
Thanks for the comment, this is happening to me sometimes with Czech🙂
5:00 in Polish you change the word immediately
1 year - rok
2 years - dwa lata
"lata" is plural of "lato" which means "summer".
You can find sometimes "dwa roki" but it sounds very old fashioned.
Ok cool, thanks for the info:)
czech is pretty much military cipher made to confuse passing armies
It's a difficult code to crack:):)
Im Czech and I love this :DD. I really didnt know how much have to foreigners strugggle in Czech.
It's all true😂
I honestly salute you for learning such a hard language
You're very kind, it's quite a journey:)
Great video, looking forward for more videos
Thank you very much!
And to throw more into the “year” talk… 4 roky, 5 let, 6 let… but 6.5 years is “6 a půl roku” so we go back to using “rok” even though we are past the magical number 5.
Thanks, that's true, back to rok🙂😂
I use 5 roků 6 roků etc and you can say 3 léta 4 léta 5 lét/let and also there is "po 4 (čtyřech) letech/po 4 (čtyřech) rocích"
Oh my, now I feel stupid that I got the joke about Rocky all the way at 7:12 my brain didn't connect roky and Rocky until then. I bursted out laughing at myself :D
No worries:), thanks for the nice comment.
Same here. 😂
Fan facts in Czech because im czech 🇨🇿: 1. Karel IV se původně jmenoval Václav.
2. Existuje český animovaný film o Karlu čtvrtém se známými českými postavami z komiksů čtyřlístek.
Děkuji, musím to vidět:)
he is starting to believe 😮
It's true😂
My high school math teacher had a speech impediment where she couldn't pronounce "č" and "ř" properly... that poor lady.
Good lord no! Wow!
Excellent video, loved the humor!
Thank you very much:)
I like your humour 😊
Thank you very much:)
Czechoslovakia also broke up 4 years after the Velvet Revolution
Wow! Another connection!
Also, velvet revolution happend 4 years before releasing of Doom 1, coincidence?
as a Czech, I had a lot of fun watching this, díky!
Thank you very much, I appreciate it:)
3:32 I call it Slavic pseudo-paucal (paucal - grammatical number for few objects), even it is not a real paucal, just a plural with different case.
Cool, thanks for the info.
The reason for some of the problems you will come across is that modern czech is based on an 500 years old form of itself that was artificially adapted to form the new czech language (what we use now), which itself is 250 or so years old, so a lot of the natural development was cut out, creating all sorts of problems
(and also its just really wierd if that wasn't enough)
:) Thanks for the info.
What would Czech be like if it wasn’t artificially adapted?
@@why9648 it would be a dead language by now, or a mix of dying dialects with a number of speakers too low to keep alive, there certainly wouldn't be one unified language
I will be real as a czech I have never really thought about that, we do that huh asgasaksj. I was giggling to myself while I watched this but honestly it was very interesting to see what foreigners struggle with.
Thanks:)
I really don't know why under 5 we say rok/roky, but above 5 the word "let" is derived from Czech "léto", which means summer and so you say "5 summers" basically, sometimes people do the same in a week, instead of saying "3 týdny" they'll say "3 neděle) as in "3 sundays"
The fact about the Sundays insteat of weeks is very cool:)
Props to this guy for trying to even learn this mess :D
And hey, dont worry about it. All throughout elementary and high school I got Cs and Ds from Czech exams. I learned how to properly use grammar in written sentences thanks to auto-correcting phones when I was about 17 and I just brute forced my way into not sounding like an absolute idiot.
English? That was straight As for me for some reason.
Born in Czechia, to Czech parents that didn´t speak any other language.
Also - ordering 9 shots instead of 2 shots might be the most Czech thing that ever was (in Moravia at least) so you are getting there!
Thanks for the comment, it makes me feel better:)
Love your humor 😂 Léta and roky are inerchangable in this context. You can say dvě léta and šest roků and it is perfectly fine. You can also use other seasons like jara or zimy if you wanna mix it up and feel fancy.
Thanks for the comment and good to know about the flexibility of jaro and zima:)
@@CzechinwithBryan ... just don't use podzimy for counting years. :D Guess it's not poetic enough, so no one uses it that way.
I can confirm that Karel IV. (Charles the fourth) is indeed someone to never joke about.
However there's one more Karel not to be joked about and that's Karel (or as Czechs say Kája) Gott.
Of course, zlatý hlas!
Czech numbers sometimes do other weird things. You can say "třetice, čtveřice, pětice" to mean a group of 3, 4, or 5 things, or the 3rd, 4th, 5th iteration of something, but you usually cannot do this with larger numbers, such as 10 (deset, desetice; desetice is a word you will never hear).
The strange thing is the cutoff seems to be around number 6. Šestice is still sometimes heard but sedmice (7 things), I have never heard in my life.
Ok cool thanks, another level of complexity😂
As for the years. You can use the word 5 ROKŮ, 6 ROKŮ. The word ROK means just year. Grammatically it is correct. It has just become customary to use the word LÉTO, which means summer, for more than five. You can also say 1 LÉTO, 2 LÉTA, 5 LET. They are two different words. The problem with 1 LÉTO is that we don't know if you mean a whole year or just one summer. If you say 5 ROKŮ, it's unusual but clearly understandable.
Ok thanks, good point.
Fun fact, in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan the number 4 is believed to be unlucky and a sign of death. So you might not be that far off with thinking that it's magical in Czech. It very well might be.
Thanks for the comment, perhaps I've stumbled across something:)
26 subs only? HOW? This is toptier czech language shitpost.
Thanks a lot, it's early days hopefull they will rise:)
@CzechinwithBryan no worries, I see it's growing already. I'll show you to my gf who's learning Czech too. Maybe she'll sub too.
@@PotatoSmasher420 Thanks for that!
“rok” (year) and “léto” (summer) are two different nouns and can both be used interchangeably for counting years. “Pět let” (five summers) and “pět roků” (five years) are both perfectly correct to use. “Jeden rok” (one year) and “jedno léto” (one summer) not so much, though. The latter describes a time of just one particular summer.
Anyways, excuse my rudeness, please. I appreciate both your humour and the interest in our language. I genuinely like your video. Looking forward to seeing the next one ❤ :)
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Eager to correct you passionately when the chance comes, of course 😅
Ok thanks, no worries, that's great information, I appreciate it:)
Nah, look, it's perfectly simple. Just watch your numeral endings and it's revealed immediately. Vowels: JednO pivo (ends in vowel), dvĚ piva (ends in vowel), třI piva (ends in vowel), čtyřI piva (ends in vowel), pěT piv (ends in consonant), šesT piv (ends in consonant), sedM piv (ends in consonant)... you get the gist. It works flawlessly until one hundred where there is a bit of a hiccup with stO piv, and there's also the masculine gender throwing it off a bit for jedeN, but otherwise that's the only rule you need to keep in mind.
Ok cool, thanks for the info!
your eyes exude the pain of someone trying to learn czech
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Czech language making violent numbers on foreign speakers. :D My guess for changing roots would be the fact that Czech fluently combines western and eastern influence. You could count years without changing the root actually. But saying "Jedno léto, dvě léta, tři léta, čtyři léta, pět let" and so on sounds really archaic. Or you can go with "roků" past 4 resulting in "pět roků, šest roků" which is technically possible, but nobody speaks like that. :D It's a similar problem as with english that's being taught in our schools. Technically correct, but you'll never hear a native speaker say a word like "Qualitative". It's like having a huge "FOREIGNER" sign taped to your forehead.
Thanks for the info, makes sense.
On behalf of Czech people I sincerely apologize. We didn't expect that anyone else will ever want to learn our language when we were inventing it.
😂😂, ok thanks for the apology!
Hey sweetie, long time no see. I'm still "stuck" in Bournemouth but getting back to Prague one day is on my bucket list 😁I have Czech neighbours here, so I practice my pathetic Czech with them while helping them with their English 😇Great to see your videos😘
Hello Issy, nice to hear from you:), thanks for the comment, I hope your Czech neighbours will invite you for Goose tomorrow, it's St. Martin's day:)
If you're trying to learn Czech, you're incredibly brave! Not even all Czechs speak Czech perfectly. But here's a secret: with imperfect pronunciation and bad grammar, you'll sound adorable-at least "I'll buy you a drink" level of cute. That's the magic of our language!
Thanks for the encouraging comment:)
"Too many háčeks" 🤣
I love to see someone struggling at czech as much as I a czech person struggle at German.
😃😂 thank you
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th...
Also a lot of rule exceptions or entire rules are made to make the language more "euphonic". Thats why you have dvě piva but also dvacet-dva piv and not dva piv or dvacet-dvě piva.
Ok I see, thanks for this.
You can say "pět roků", not change it to "let", bit this is hilarious, I am Czech and never even realized we change the words so much 😂😂😂
Thanks a lo!
technicaly speaking roky is the plural form, since the previous movies were named in plural, the fifth would be called Léta 5
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😂rocky ctyri, hilarious connection😂
Thank you very much!
The difference from 4 to 5 in plural usage doesn't have to do much with Czech language itself. It's a common human thing. It seems like 4 or 5 is like the limit to concrete numbers and then it simply is an abstract lot. It can be observable in Roman numerals and also in other languages. In Czech you say "A lot of beers" but you concretize the "a lot", so you can get "five of beers".
Thanks, yes, like looking at a few being a smaller group and above 5 viewed differently.
Miluju tohle video😂
Děkuji moc:)
😂😂😂 love it
Thank you very much🙂😉
7:39 not true. It's "5 roků". 5 let could be interpreted as 5 summers, witch is also 5 years in time, but other way.
Thanks for the info:)
I'm czech, never lived anywhere else and I don't think I ever heard anyone say 5 roků, except for kids still figuring out the language. It's technically correct but not used normally.
Number 5 is alive!
Nice!
Karel IV. isn't so threatening, he's Karel 4th, not Karel 4 and 4th is "čtvrtý" so without "ř". But on the other hand, in čtvrtý only last letter is vowel, so maybe... :D
Thanks for the info:)
numbers are considered magical all over the world and differ with cultures, but the really significant are almost always divisible by 4. 4, 8 and 12 specially. 4 is also very interesting in east asia as it sounds simillar to "death" and have many conotations as our 13. there are usually no 4th floors in hotels as nobody would ever reserve them.
Ok thanks, good to know about 4 having a similar significance to 13.
And someone still asks me:”Why do you prefer english to your mother language?”
🙂😂
00:59 Asking for 1 shot you'd say "jednoho panáka" not "jeden panák" - the context is (I want/you have) "jednoho panáka" or (there is) "jeden panák"
05:05 You can also say 5+ "roků" (less common, but perfectly understood). "let" is derived from "léto", which means "summer" - so if you say "5 let" you are, literally translated, saying "5 summers", normally that is understood as "5 years".
I'll let myself out.
:):) thanks for the info, you're absolutely right.
@@CzechinwithBryan Technically, your "jeden panák" is more correct from the codified grammar POV. But kkaryk is right pragmatically, as the less formal way to use this expression - and ordering shots at the bar certainly lends itself to informal lingo - is to treat the semantically inanimate panák as a grammatically animate noun, yielding "jednoho panáka".
Pragmatics in linguistics is fun :)
@@vojtechjanda9684 Thanks, yes that was my problem, I assumed it was inanimate:)
This will make you happy - how do you say “two years old”?
😂 good point.
As a Czech, I agree that our obssesion with the number 4 is odd 😁 I realized it too, but through rap
I listen to a lot of Czech rap, and a lot of rappers use 4 a lot in their texts, in parables and examples 😁 it's weird but it just works 😂
😀, maybe there is a lot more to number 4 than I thought.
I guess the use of léto for those higher numbers of years is rooted from the medieval times, where peasants would measure time by natural things, so if 5 summers passed, it was 5 let, so in this case it's somewhat interchangeable. Although it's grammatically correct to use both words for any given number, if you only use the word léto, you sound like an 18th century poet, and if you use only the word rok, you sound like you're from the Silesian region, because that's how it is in the dialect (I personally also say 5, 10, 15 roků instead of let). In the formal form of the language, that 4-5 system is a standard, anything mentioned above would sound informal or archaic. Also, if you're having problems with pronouncing the word čtyři, you can informalise it by saying štyry. It's not formal but it's used in day to day conversations (the Czech language has three officially recognised forms, 1) literary Czech 2) general Czech 3) informal Czech; 1 and 2 are considered formal, although they work a little bit differently - 1 you see in books and hear with politicians and 2 you hear in ordinary people having a conversation, 3 is a nono, because that's the form used by rude drunks and cheeky teens).
Thanks, that's great information, very interesting that you use roků for 5, 10, 15. I think I'm firmly in group 3 with the drunks and teens😄
@@CzechinwithBryan you can say roků for any amount of years, it just sounds archaic.
same with 1-4 léta: also archaic.
Brilliant video 😂🇨🇿
Thank you very much.
I, as a Czech, clicked on this video (a little bit confused but intrigued) thinking it’s gonna be about some conspiracy theories. It didn’t occur to me it’s just poor foreigners fighting for their lives with our beautiful language lmao. Had a great time watching this
In Czech language you don't learn a rules because it is made entirely from exceptions only :-D
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Anebo ještě v množném čísle-jedni,jedny,jedna
Děkuji, i složitější 🙂
Let 5 got me lol
Thanks:)
you can say "pět roků" its possible ;) it just sounds a bit strange.
Lovely! I am a Czech, of course. :) And a secret for you only, Polish is the same, even without Charles IV (Karel Čtvrtý), who actually was King Charles I. ;)
Thanks so much for the comment, yes Karel should be number one!
@@CzechinwithBryan Hi there, as a Czech king he should have been Charles I., but he was also the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and as such he was Charles IV.
You can keep using "rok" when saying 5 years and so on. It just gets changed once again - 5 roků :D :D :D
Thanks, maybe that's an easier system:)
An Irish man has no right to complain about numbers 😂
Fair point😂
dvacet jedna and jedenadvacet meaning the same thing. Sadly this phenomenon didn't come up in your video.
Karel is important maximaly in Prague. In Ostrava we have another more famous historic persons. Karel is not mentioned almost anywhere.here in Ostrava 😂
Ok that is good to know:)