David S. Danaher

Outline of Czech Grammar

An outstanding reference grammar is James Naughton's Czech: An Essential Grammar (Routledge 2005). For Czech cases and their meanings, I highly recommend Laura Janda & Steven Clancy's The Case Book for Czech (Slavica 2006).



Sounds

Hard and soft consonants



Nouns

Grammatical gender and grammatical stems

Consonant changes in case forms



Introduction to case

Test-phrases for cases

Nominative case



Vocative case



Accusative case



Locative case

Dative case

Genitive case



Instrumental case

Neuter nouns in -í



Feminine nouns ending in a consonant



Masculine nouns ending in -ista (and -a)



Masculine nouns ending in -ce



Neuter nouns ending in -um



Neuter nouns in -a (sg) and -ata (pl)

Verbal nouns





Adjectives and adverbs



Adjectives and their cases



Adjectives used as nouns

Possessive adjectives

Adverbs

Comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs

Verbs



Verbs: the present tense

Past tense



Future tense



Introduction to aspect (imperfective and perfective)



Modal verbs: want, can, must...

Verbs of motion

Imperative

Conditional constructions

Pronouns

Pronouns and their forms

Numbers, Time



Cardinal numbers



Ordinal numbers

Days of the week

Months

Telling time







Syntax

The aby construction

Lexicon

Everything and everyone in Czech

Words for "married/marrying" in Czech



Expressing age



Expressing liking (and disliking) with rád/ráda







Other



Czech verbal prefixes



Czech conjunctions

Common prepositions

