"malý dům"
Translation:little house
September 8, 2017
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It's longer than "u": Ů = Ú
The difference between those two is nowadays simply a matter of orthography. Ú is used at the beginning of a word/word stem, ů anywhere else.
And as for why we have two letters for the same sound: "ů" evolved over time from the former diphthong "uo": dóm > duom > dům. A heritage from the 14-15th centuries, so to speak.