4.9 – Buying Clothes
This lesson is mostly a few vocabulary items for shopping for clothes.
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You may go to a mall to do your shopping, in which case you’ll go to a obchodní centrum – lit. ‘store center’ or a nákupní centrum – lit. ‘shopping center’, though despite its name, it is more like a mall – the American concept of a bunch of stores all centered around a parking lot is much less common there than in the United States.
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velikost – size
In Czech these are just like in English (in the age of globalisation, t-shirt sizes are the same pretty much everywhere and all based on English): S, M, L, XL, XXL
If you wanted to say these, you would say:
S – esko M – emko L – elko XL – ixelko XXL – ixixelko
Other sizes get more complicated (typically either in inches for some brands or centimeters for other brands).
Women’s sizes (2, 4, 6, etc.) tend to be easy to convert (just add 30 – so 2 is 32, 4 is 34, etc.)
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Oddělení – You might need to find different parts of a store (oddělení – divisions). A few words that will come in handy:
móda – fashion
obuv (f.) – footwear
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Other Useful Vocabulary
cena – price
sleva (often plural – slevy) – sales!
nákupní košík – shopping cart (in the sense of an online store |
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