8.2 – Lots of things! Counting lots of people, objects, etc.

As you saw in the previous video, we see a lot of genitive plural . We’re going to take the time now to review the genitive plural so we can talk about all the things that are our own universities, home towns, etc.

Masculine

Make sure you include the kroužek over the ending -ů or it will be confused with the genitive singular (fotka stolu ‘a picture of a table’ vs. fotka stolů ‘a picture of tables’).

hodně kamarádů

‘a lot of friends’

několik bytů

‘a few apartments’

Feminine and Neuter

feminine

The ending for the feminine is -ø (i.e. no ending) for all hard-stem nouns, and soft-stem nouns ending in -ice (e.g. ulice ‘street’) and -yně (e.g. sportovkyně ‘[female] athlete’). This means that you delete the final -a or -e from these words to form the genitive plural.

hodně knih

‘a lot of books’

několik map

‘a few maps’

neuter

The ending for the neuter is also -ø for all hard-stem nouns and soft-stem nouns ending in -iště (e.g. letiště ‘airport’). The genitive plural of soft-stem nouns ending in -iště is -išť (the final ť remains soft).

několik piv

‘a few beers’

Adjectives are relatively straightforward with a single ending regardless of gender:

Karel má hodně nových kamarádů.

‘Karel has many new friends.’

Koupil jsem si pět zajímavých knih.

‘I bought five interesting books.’