Learn how to ask for help and to call the police
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| INTRODUCTION |
| In this lesson, you’ll learn some phrases that we hope you won’t need to use. While the Czech Republic is a safe place to visit, you should always be careful when you are traveling. In this lesson, you’ll learn phrases you can use to ask for help. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| These phrases are not limited to threatening situations and you can also use them if you or someone around you needs help. |
| In Czech, “Help!” is |
| Pomoc! |
| (slow) Po-moc! |
| Now let’s hear it again. |
| Pomoc! |
| The word simply means “Help”. |
| The emergency phone number in the Czech Republic is 112. With this number, you can call the police, ambulance, fire brigade or military police force. You can call from a public phone or from a cell phone for free. |
| When you ask someone else to call the number 112, you can say “Call the emergency number!” In Czech, this is Zavolejte pohotovost! |
| (slow) Za-vo-lej-te po-ho-to-vost! |
| Zavolejte pohotovost! |
| The first word zavolejte means “to ring”or “to call” when talking about a phone. |
| (slow) Za-vo-lej-te. |
| Zavolejte. |
| The second word pohotovost means “emergency”. |
| (slow) Po-ho-to-vost. |
| Pohotovost. |
| The whole expression is Zavolejte pohotovost! |
| Literally it means “Call emergency!” |
| When you want to say “Call the police!” in Czech, it’s Zavolejte policii! |
| The first word zavolejte means “to call”. |
| (slow) Za-vo-lej-te. |
| Zavolejte. |
| The second word policii is the conjugated form of the noun policie which means “the police”. |
| (slow) Po-li-ci-i. |
| Policii. |
| Let’s hear the entire sentence again: |
| Zavolejte policii! |
| If you need to call the fire department by saying “Call the Fire station”, you say: |
| Zavolejte hasiče! |
| (slow) Za-vo-lej-te ha-si-če! |
| The first word zavolejte means “to call”. |
| The word hasiče is the form of the noun hasiči which is translated as “the firemen”. |
| (slow) Ha-si-če. |
| Hasiče. |
| The whole expression one more time is: |
| Zavolejte hasiče! |
| Literally it means “Call the firemen!” |
| The other useful expression is “Call the ambulance”. In Czech, this is.. |
| Zavolejte ambulanci! |
| (slow) Za-vo-lej-te am-bu-lan-ci! |
| The word ambulanci is the conjugated form of the noun ambulance which means “the ambulance”. |
| (slow) Am-bu-lan-ci. |
| Ambulanci. |
| Let’s listen to the phrase once again. |
| Zavolejte ambulanci! |
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