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INTRODUCTION
Exchanging money in the Czech Republic is easy and convenient. You can exchange money at airports, special money exchange kiosks and banks. It will be easy to find a place to exchange money. Just look for the English term ‘Exchange.’ In case you can’t find one, you can also look for an ATM.
GRAMMAR POINT
In Czech, “Is there an ATM near here?” is
Je tady blízko bankomat?
(slow) Je ta-dy blíz-ko ban-ko-mat?
Je tady blízko bankomat?
If you want to exchange money at a bank, you can just replace the word for ATM with the word for bank. “Is there a bank near here?” In Czech, this is..
Je tady blízko banka?
(slow) Je ta-dy blíz-ko ban-ka?
Je tady blízko banka?
It is simple. As you may have noticed, we just replaced bankomat meaning “ATM” with banka meaning “bank.”
(slow) banka
banka
Let’s ask for an exchange office. The Czech word for ‘exchange office’ is.. směnárna.
(slow) Smě-nár-na.
Směnárna.
To ask ‘“Is there an exchange office near here?”, you can say..
Je tady blízko směnárna?
(slow) Je ta-dy blíz-ko smě-nár-na?
Je tady blízko směnárna?
If you want to ask "Where can I exchange currency?" you can say..
Kde můžu vyměnit peníze?
Let’s break it down:
Kde mů-žu vy-mě-nit pe-ní-ze?
Once again:
Kde můžu vyměnit peníze?
The first word, kde, means “where.”
(slow) Kde.
Kde.
Then we have můžu, which is a form of the verb “can”. We translate it as “I can”.
(slow) Mů-žu.
Můžu.
The word vyměnit is a verb that means “to exchange”.
(slow) Vy-mě-nit.
Vyměnit.
And at the end we have peníze the word for “money”.
(slow) Pe-ní-ze.
Peníze.
All together, we have
Kde můžu vyměnit peníze?
Literally, this means “Where can I exchange money?”
When you exchange money in Czech, usually you will be asked Všechny? It means ‘All of them? The word Všechny literally means ‘All.’
(slow) Všech-ny?
Všechny?
If you want to, you can simply say ano meaning ‘Yes.’
(slow) ano
ano
In the case that you need more coins, you can break a banknote into coins or the small denominations of bills. You should say “Can you break this banknote please?” or in Czech, Můžete mi rozměnit tuhle bankovku, prosím?
Let’s break it down:
Mů-že-te mi roz-mě-nit tuh-le ban-kov-ku, pro-sím?
Once more:
Můžete mi rozměnit tuhle bankovku, prosím?
The first word můžete is something like“can you”.
The word mi means “to me” in English.
Then we have rozměnit which means “to break” or literally “to change”.
(slow) Roz-mě-nit.
Rozměnit.
Next we have tuhle which means “this” in feminine form.
(slow) Tuh-le.
Tuhle.
After that, we have bankovku meaning “banknote”.
(slow) Ban-kov-ku.
Bankovku.
And at the end, we have prosím meaning “please”
Here’s the question again:
Můžete mi rozměnit tuhle bankovku, prosím?
The literal translation is “Can you change this banknote?”
Ask this when you have a big bill that you want to break.

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