"Matěji, vy jste dobrý přítel."
Translation:Matěj, you are a good friend.
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OK, so normally, friends wouldn't address each other formally, in Czech, even though the vocative case is used? Am I understanding this properly? So if Matěj is the speaker's friend, the sentence would be, "Matěji, ty jsi dobrý přitel," correct?
BTW, this is so similar to Ukrainian!
Matvíju, vy/ty [je] dobryj pryjatel'.
Матвію, ви/ти [є] добрий приятель.
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This is true somehow, but I disagree in one point: The chapter is "thou". It is tough enough that English usually does not differ vykat/tykat, so it's cool they exhumed the good ol' "thou". I also was surprised a bit. If it comes to the Czech language, of course it's right because you only tykat family, friends, children and God ;) . But taking the grammar headline into consideration, the protest is legitimate.
Přítel means often "boyfriend" if a lady or woman says that about a man.
Kamarád means now just a friend, used to be (and maybe it still to some extent is) more colloquial than přítel, and used to be used especially in certain contexts say 100 years ago, but is now often used instead of přítel when a confusion with the "boyfriend" meaning is to be avoided.
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I am having a lot of trouble trying to pronounce přítel. When ř is in Kateřina, it sounds like a r followed by zh. But when I listen to přítel, it sounds like pleetel, only not quite. I'm not hearing the zh at all.
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To my ears, it can sound either as "rzh" voiced or "shr" unvoiced. That's how my brain processes it.
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Thank you both VladaFu and va-diim. That does help, to know that the consonant sounds different because it is unvoiced. I looked on Youtube and I was surprised and pleased to see that there are several videos entirely dedicated to pronouncing that sound! I can at least roll my rs, so I will practise.
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I realize there was not a question mark, but don't you say it the same way whether a question or a statement?