"Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč."
7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.
7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.
- don't know what a "žbrnd" is
- "zdrhl" is the l-participle of some verb that I don't know
- "hrd" is not something I've seen (is it related to "hrdina" - hero - maybe?)
- "Brd" no idea
- "srn" might be like "srnec" (kind of deer) but if I heard it in a sentence I wouldn't make that connection
- "Krč" - I've seen "Krčma" as a form of pub, but idk if this word refers to that
These guesses I made are possibly miles off the mark :D
There's a breakdown here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/czech/comments/1l3tdw/new_longest_c...
Brd, Smrk and Krč are places. "Zdrhl": escaped; "hrd": proudly; "srn" is a doe, a female deer.
Nobody seems to know "žbrnd", but this is admittedly purposely difficult language, showing off how much is possible without vowels.
Anyway it's good to know I'm not the only one struggling through. Keep it up!
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v...
... However, speaking as a resident of Czechia, it's worse here.
Consider that quote. The word "čtvrť" means _quarter_, as in Latin Quarter or Arab Quarter. It differs from the word "čtvrt" (meaning a quarter of a pizza, say) by the half a diacritic on the final letter T: ť. That diacritic modifies the following vowel — for example the famous shoe company is not Bata (bar-ta) but Baťa (bar-tya).
In "čtvrť" the háček modifies the following vowel that isn't there and thus changes the meaning of the word.
Czech is czallenging.