3.11 – Genitive Singular and Quantity
We have learned that the genitive case is the of case. We will now further our ability to talk about food by quantifying how much of various items we want. We’ll start with the genitive singular:
Genitive Singular Noun Forms
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MA |
MI |
F |
N |
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Hard stem |
-a losos → lososa |
-u džus → džusu
irregular: chléb → chleba sýr → sýra/sýru |
-y káva → kávy |
-a pivo → piva |
|
Soft stem |
-e sumec→ sumce[1] |
-e čaj → čaje |
-e cibule → cibule
-e mrkev → mrkve
-i sůl → soli (ů → o) |
-e vejce → vejce (i.e. no change)
-í zelí → zelí |
quantity words
lžíce cukru
‘a (table)spoon of sugar’
kilo(gram) masa
‘a kilogram of meat’
sklenice piva
‘glass of beer’
kus lososa
‘a piece of salmon’
kousek chleba
‘a piece of bread’
[1] I was stretching a little bit here to find a masculine animate soft stem noun that you would potentially eat. Here the word sumec ‘cat fish’ is one of few examples available for a MA soft stem.