"My cousin reads in her bed."
Translation:Moje sestřenice si čte v posteli.
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You can use both. číst is more general, číst si implies one reads it for their for pleasure and usually not aloud.
Just a general question. I don't see a tutorial for the locative case. It has been a bit confusing trying to reason it out. I finally went to Wikipedia for the grammer. Are they planning a tutorial for locative?
Yes, but now most of the work on new stuff is towards the new version of the tree.
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HER is not explicit in the Czech translation. Are we to deduce it from the use of the reflexive SI?
"My cousin reads in bed" is also accepted.. I believe the use of si suggests that she is reading to herself, rather than, say, reading aloud to others.
Darn English and its lack of genders! You are correct. BUT in this case, you would have to say "...v její posteli", since for some reason he is, apparently, in a bed that belongs to a female, so just saying "v posteli" is not going to cut it.
Both are accepted, but the latter is not that much natural. It would only be used if you wanted to stress it she is in HER bed.
2 quick questions: why "si" vs "se" here? And earlier in this exercise I translated this as "My cousin is reading (possibly reads, can't remember now) to herself in bed" which was counted wrong. I'm not sure why since the use of the reflexive points in that direction. And is the "her bed" simply implied?
proč "her" bed, to je ve své posteli, ne? klidně si může číst v cizí posteli
A to říkáte běžně česky "ležím ve své posteli", i když zrovna nepotřebujete zdůrazňovat, že nejste v cizí, jo?
"in her bed...", takže těžko bratranec.
Ovšem "Můj bratranec si čte v její posteli" uznáno je, to už odpovídá.
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"Moje sestrenice si čté na posteli." accepted? "To read in bed, could be to lie in bed reading, not covered by blanket. Thx
Not sure now if we'd say "in her bed" then. "Na posteli" in Czech would mean that she's probably sitting on the bed (since "leží" is not mentioned), not lying in it, and in that case, we'd use "on her bed" in English.
Also, by the way, it's "sestřenice" and "čte".