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New Adjectives

I’ve added some new adjectives, after a long dry spell: Holohlavy, Bald, Hrozny, Terrible, and Pesky, On foot. Also Dychtivy, Eager, and Zluty, Yellow.

Shameless self-promotion: The Little Czech Primer is featured in an article in The Prague Post! The article’s called Labor of laska (love), and it’s on the web. And if you’ve got the print edition, it’s on page D6 of the October 25-31. Thanks to Evan Rail for writing the article, and for sending me a copy of the printed article!

Five New Colors

Five new colors were added today: Cerveny, Red, Modry, Blue, Ruzovy, Pink, Sedy, Grey, and Zeleny, Green.

Several New Adjectives

Several new adjectives added: Cely, Whole, Chytry, Clever, Daleky, Far, Kapesni, Pocket-sized, Koreneny, Spicy, Mokry, Wet, Suchy, Dry, and Zajimavy, Interesting.

Prset, Veceret, Volat, Rajce

Added: Prset, To rain, Veceret, To have dinner, Volat, To call, and Rajce, Tomato.

New Words of All Sorts

New words of all sorts: Brambor, Potato, Hovezi, Beef, Poslat, To Send, Snidat, To have breakfast, Spadnout, To fall, Stary, Old, and Vymenit, To exchange.

Two Verbs and an Adjective

Two verbs and an adjective: Mylit Se, To be mistaken, Navstivit, To visit, and Chytry, Clever.

Three New Sexy Vegetables

Three new sexy vegetables: Cesnek, Garlic, Cibule, Onion, and Paprika, Pepper.

A cornucopia of food words

A cornucopia of food words added today: Banan, Banana, Citron, Lemon, Kvetak, Cauliflower, Jablko, Apple, Jahoda, Strawberry, Mandarinka, Tangerine, Merunka, Apricot, and Salat, Salad. Dobrou chut’!

Czech Analyzer

I ran across a fascinating site today, Xerox Research Centre Europe: Multi Language Theory & Technology Demos: Czech Analyzer. It’s not a translation tool, but a linguistic analyzation tool–a sort of tool for do-it-yourselfers. Plug in a Czech phrase, and it will break it down by part of speech, gender, case, etc. This makes it easy for someone with only a dictionary in hand to puzzle out Czech text. Very clever, those guys at Xerox! [found via VADA‘s language resources. There’s more good Czech links there too.]

Author: owen