Outline of Czech Grammar

An outstanding reference grammar is James Naughton's Czech: An Essential Grammar (Routledge 2005). For Czech cases and their meanings, I highly recommend Laura Janda & Steven Clancy's The Case Book for Czech (Slavica 2006).

 

Sounds

Hard and soft consonants

 

Nouns

Grammatical gender and grammatical stems

Consonant changes in case forms

Introduction to case

Test-phrases for cases

Nominative case

Vocative case

Accusative case

Locative case

Dative case

Genitive case

Instrumental case

Neuter nouns in -í

Feminine nouns ending in a consonant

Masculine nouns ending in -ista (and -a)

Masculine nouns ending in -ce

Neuter nouns ending in -um

Neuter nouns in -a (sg) and -ata (pl)

Verbal nouns

Adjectives and adverbs

Adjectives and their cases

Adjectives used as nouns

Possessive adjectives

Adverbs

Comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs

 

Verbs

Verbs: the present tense

Past tense

Future tense

Introduction to aspect (imperfective and perfective)

Modal verbs: want, can, must...

Verbs of motion

Imperative

Conditional constructions

 

Pronouns

Pronouns and their forms

 

Numbers, Time

Cardinal numbers

Ordinal numbers

Days of the week

Months

Telling time

Syntax

The aby construction

 

Lexicon

Everything and everyone in Czech

Words for "married/marrying" in Czech

Expressing age

Expressing liking (and disliking) with rád/ráda

Other

Czech verbal prefixes

Czech conjunctions

Common prepositions