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INTRODUCTION
The Czech currency is the Czech koruna, which in English is called the Czech crown.
Denominations include coins for 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 crowns and bills for 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000 and 5000.
GRAMMAR POINT
Let’s say some prices in Czech – it won’t be too difficult. Let’s start with “One crown.”
Jedna koruna
(slow) Jed-na ko-ru-na.
Jedna koruna.
“15 crowns” will sound like this:
Patnáct korun. The word koruna becomes korun in the plural form.
Let’s break that down:
(slow) Pat-náct ko-run.
Patnáct korun.
If you go up to hundreds and thousands, just try to remember our previous lessons about counting.
We’ve already learned that “a hundred” in Czech is sto.
In Czech 200 is dvě stě, 300 is tři sta, 400 is čtyři sta, and so on.
So “230 crowns” is Dvě stě třicet korun.
(slow) Dvě stě tři-cet ko-run.
Dvě stě třicet korun.
Dvě means “two” and stě is the form of sto (a hundred).
A thousand in Czech is
Tisíc.
(slow) Ti-síc.
Tisíc.
For 2000, 3000 and 4000, we use the plural of the word tisíc which is tisíce.
So 2000 would be dva tisíce.
Now for a slightly more complicated number, “5,420 crowns”. In Czech, it is, pět tisíc čtyři sta dvacet korun.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) pět ti-síc čty-ři sta dva-cet ko-run.
Once more:
pět tisíc čtyři sta dvacet korun.

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