"Jsou ty stroje dobré?"

Translation: Are the machines good?

[Jimanji762]

"are these good machines?" - wrong?

[Mrkev10]

'Are they good machines?' came out as incorrect

[Moxemus]

the vs these vs those - how can you tell the difference in Czech?

[endless_sleeper]

this = toto/tohle/tohleto...
that/the = to/tamto/tamhleto...

(Edited)

[kacenka9]

I diagree. Throughout the course THIS is accepted as TOTO/TOHLE/TOHLETO (and gender permutations).

THAT and THE are accepted as TO/TAMTO/TAMHLETO.

The difference between this and that is similar to difference between 'here' and 'there'.

[Moxemus]

Thank you for the added clarification - it's very useful for me for the course.

[DarrylMose]

I am thoroughly confused. I put "Are those good machines?" and it was incorrect. What would "Are those good machines?" look like, keeping in mind that word order apparently doesn't matter?

[ion1122]

Darryl, why the confusion? Looking at the Czech here, I think you can see that dobré is being used in the predicate position, rather than in front of a noun; and that ty is being used immediately before a noun. So it must be: Are those machines good.

[DarrylMose]

Hi Ion, thanks for responding. I'm not confused anymore (now that I have been learning for over a month). The confusion at the time was that the "to" is "this/that/these/those" when the subject, but "to" is just one of "ty/ta/to" when in front of a noun. And it's so many more things.

[Akietsu]

Read kacenka’s comment above

[ion1122]

kacenka's comment does not answer Darryl's question. Darryl is asking about the difference between these two questions:
1. Are those machines good?
2. Are those good machines?

[SeanMeaneyPL]

If Jsou ty stroje dobré? means "Are the/those machines good?" does that mean (and here I am comparing a previous sentence: Jsou to staré zeny: They are old women) that Jsou to stroje dobré? would mean "Are they/those good machines?"

[ion1122]

Sean, in your last Czech sentence, why do you write the adjective "dobré" after the noun? Shouldn't it come before the noun, as in your previous sentence, "staré zeny"?

[EricAllard2]

Hi, can someone explain why, "Are they good machines?" incorrect? If jsou is "they are", it seems like a logical english translation.

[FelicianoA501166]

stroj is masculine right? Therefore should be "ti", not "ty"?

[nueby]

For the masculine gender, it matters whether the noun is animate or inanimate. Ti staří muži, but ty staré stroje. You should (re)read the tips for the early skills.