Czech
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4.3
- noun
- /tʃɛk/
:
checo
- There they heard addresses in both English and Czech on the Civil War and on the role of Czechs in America.
- standard Czech
- literary Czech
- speak Czech
So I'd speak French, Spanish, English, German, Czech, obviously.
- So I'd speak French, Spanish, English, German, Czech, obviously.
Examples
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Speakers in Texas are aware that their speech differs from standard modern Czech.
Academic text (1996) -
We told him to learn a few key phrases in Czech.
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And he, he spoke Czech, but his family spoke German.
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So I'd speak French, Spanish, English, German, Czech, obviously.
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When we wanted to speak Czech correctly, we had to pay attention.
Academic text (1996) -
When I lived in Canada as a child, my family spoke Czech almost exclusively at home or with Czech friends.
Fiction book (1990) -
Usually when the priests in our Catholic churches preached in Czech, that was the correct speech.
Academic text (1996) -
That's 'congratulations' in Czech.
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Compounding this is the fact that Dolezel published in his native Czech until his emigration to Canada.
Academic text (1998) -
In her head, she could still hear him singing a lullaby in Czech to Daniella.
Synonyms
A language spoken mainly in the Czech Republic
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Czech for the language comes from the old name Čech, a leader in a founding story; his people were called Češi, so their speech became known as 'Czech'.