Czech
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4.1
- noun
- /tʃɛk/
:
checo
- Someone from Czechoslovakia is a Czech.
- identity as Czech
And so in the attempt to convert the Czechs, which fails.
- And so in the attempt to convert the Czechs, which fails.
- Now you have the Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Yugoslavs as enemies.
- It's millions of subjects ranged from Germans to Croats to Italians to Poles to Czechs to many, many more.
Examples
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I don't speak Czech.
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During our trip, we met several Czech people who shared their culture with us.
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Four men in our company, two Frenchmen, a German, and a Czech, had fought in various armies in the recent world war.
Fiction book (1995) -
Consider Jra Cimrman, by popular opinion the greatest Czech who ever lived.
Academic text (2008) -
Her passport is Czech.
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Monolingual English speakers, whatever the region of origin of their immigrant ancestors, typically define their identity as Czech.
Academic text (1996) -
Now you have the Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Yugoslavs as enemies.
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After 1918, more Texas Moravians began to identify themselves as Czech, although others preserved intact, at least when speaking their Moravian dialect, the concept of Moravian ethnicity that their parents or grandparents had espoused.
Academic text (1996) -
My grandmother is a Czech who moved to America after World War II.
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The soccer team included a talented Czech player known for his skill on the field.
Compounds
How Czech
Surface Forms
Etymology
Czech for a person comes from the same old name Čech for the people; a Czech is simply someone from the group called 'Czechs', which is why it means a person from the Czech Republic.