Where do you go? I go home. Where were you yesterday? I went into the forest. The boy reads a book. The boys read books. The boy was reading a book. The boys were reading books. The sisters were talking with teachers. Behind the house is a garden. Did you see the soldiers? The soldier was here.
IX.
Declension of feminine nouns ending in -a.
Vzor ryba.
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | ryba | ryby |
| Obj. | rybu | ryby |
| Poss. | ryby | ryb |
| Dat. | rybě | rybám |
| Loc. | rybě | rybách |
| Instrum. | rybou | rybami |
| Vocative | rybo! | ryby! |
Notes on this declension: A. The possessive plural is formed from the simple stem, ryb, škol, žen. Where this stem ends in two or more consonants sestra, matka, bitva etc. it is necessary for the sake of euphony to introduce “movable e” before the last consonant. Ex. sester of the sisters; matek of the mothers; bitev of the battles.
B. If the stem vowel is ou, this is shortened into u in the possessive plural. Moucha, fly; much, of the flies, louka, meadow; luk, of the meadows; houba, mushroom; hub, of the mushrooms.
C. The ending for the dative and locative singular is ě. This changes into e, before l, s, z. Ve škole, in the school, huse, to the goose, koze to the goat. The hard consonant softens before ě as was explained before, víra (belief) víře, ruka (hand) ruce, noha (foot) noze, moucha (fly) mouše.