Czech Language/Pronouns

Personal Pronouns
Unlike many western-European languages, and like most other slavic tongues, Czech does not usually make much use of personal pronouns. This is primarily because the information that pronouns convey (person, plurality & gender), is already carried by other parts of speech. They are nonetheless useful for emphasis, and in those cases where there may be confusion.

Third Person
This is where things get interesting.

jeho/něho are stressed forms though ho cannot carry stress. The same is true for the rest:


 * Viděl jsi ho?
 * Neviděl jsem ho.
 * Jeho jsem viděl, ne ji.

N- forms are used after prepositions. Ho and jej are synonymous - ho is more common, especially in speech.

The underlined pronouns  ho  and  tě  are clitics and can only be used in the second position unless pushed further right by a higher priority second-place item, such as the verb particle.


 * Vidíte ho ? "Can you see him/it?"

See Czech declension for a fuller discussion

Interrogative Pronouns

 * co = what
 * čí = whose
 * jaký = what kind
 * kde = where
 * kdo = who
 * kdy = when
 * kolik = how many/much
 * který/jenž = which