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INTRODUCTION
In this lesson we’re going to continue with counting from 11 to 100.
GRAMMAR POINT
Let’s just quickly review 0-10.
0 nula
1 jeden
jedna if the thing you count is feminine
next we have:
2 dva for masculine words and
dvě for feminine
3 tři
4 čtyři
5 pět
6 šest
7 sedm
8 osm
9 devět
10 deset
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Now let’s continue with 11 to 20.
11 jedenáct
(slow) je-de-náct
jedenáct
This word may sound very difficult when you first hear it, but in reality it is very simple.
The second part of the word -náct can be translated into English as “teen”. You will discover this part in the counters 11-19.
Here are the other numbers that follow.
12 dvanáct
(slow) dva-náct
dvanáct
13 třináct
(slow) tři-náct
třináct
14 čtrnáct
(slow) čtr-náct
čtrnáct
15 patnáct
(slow) pat-náct
patnáct
16 šestnáct
(slow) šest-náct
šestnáct
17 sedm-náct
(slow) sedm-náct
sedmnáct
18 osmnáct
(slow) osm-náct
osmnáct
19 devatenáct
(slow) de-va-te-náct
devatenáct
20 dvacet
(slow) dva-cet
dva-cet
You probably noticed that the number twelve sounds different.
Dvacet is composed from two other words. The first one is dva which means “two”
(slow) Dva.
Dva.
The second word is cet. You will see that this part is in the counters from 20 to 40. From 50 to 90, there is another part of the word - sát.
Let’s count from ten to ten until one hundred, so we can see the similarities.
10 deset
(slow) de-set
deset
20 dvacet
(slow) dva-cet
dvacet
30 třicet
(slow) tři-cet
třicet
40 čtyřicet
(slow) čty-ři-cet
čtyřicet
50 padesát
(slow) pa-de-sát
padesát
60 šedesát
(slow) še-de-sát
šedesát
70 sedmdesát
(slow) se-dm-de-sát
sedmdesát
80 osmdesát
(slow) osm-de-sát
osmdesát
90 devadesát
(slow) de-va-de-sát
devadesát
Finally, we have sto, which is “one hundred.”
100 sto
(slow) sto
sto
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Now that we learned the tens, let’s learn counting the numbers that are in between.
21 sounds like this: dvacet jedna.
Dvacet means “twenty”.
(slow) Dva-cet.
Dvacet.
Next we have jedna which means “one”.
The whole number dvacet jedna is literally translated as “twenty one”.
Let’s make some sentences using the numbers now.
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Here is the first one:
“I am twenty-one years old.”
Je mi dvacet jedna let.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Je.
Once again:
Je.
Je is a present form of the verb that means “to be.”
The next word, mi, means “to me”.
(slow) Mi.
Mi.
The word dvacet jedna means “twenty-one”.
(slow) Dva-cet jed-na.
Dvacet jedna.
The last word let means “years”.
(slow) Let.
Let.
Altogether, we have:
Je mi dvacet jedna let.
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Let’s try making the Czech word for “fifty–three.” “Fifty” is padesát and “three” is tři. Putting them together, we have padesát tři or “fifty-three.”
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Pa-de-sát tři.
And once more:
Padesát tři.
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Let’s use padesát tři to say “I have fifty-three euros”:
Mám padesát tři euro.
Let’s break that down:
(slow) Mám pa-de-sát tři eu-ro.
And at a natural speed:
Mám padesát tři euro.
Mám is translated as “I have”.
We just learned that padesát tři means “fifty-three.”
(slow) Pa-de-sát tři.
Padesát tři.
The next word, euro, means “euro”
(slow) euro
euro
The whole sentence, then, is
Mám padesát tři euro.

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