2.6 – mít ACC plural forms (family members)

In the previous lesson we learned the singular forms, so you could say things like Jan has a brother, Marie has a cousin, etc. That’s all fine and good, except people often have more than one brother, cousin, etc.

The following forms are useful in the plural:

Accusative Plural Forms

Each box has a comparison of the Nominative plural and the Accusative plural. The highlighted forms in the Masculine animate should be a bit of good news. This is the only place where nominative pl. and acc. pl. will differ.

Examples:

        Máte bratry nebo sestry?

        Do you have brothers or sisters?

        Už nemám dědečky, ale mám jednu babičku.

        I no longer have grandfathers, but I have one grandmother.

You might also want to say how many relatives, dogs, cats, etc. you have. You can combine these with numbers dva/dvě, tři, čtyři: 

Petr má dva bratry.

Petr has two brothers.

Lukáš má dvě sestry.

Lukáš has two sisters.

Já mám čtyři tety.

I have four aunts.

However, for now let’s not try to say anything 5  because that’ll need some extra forms.

jejda means ‘oh dear!’

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