"Na shledanou, děkuji."
Translation:Goodbye, thank you.
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If you pronounce it with the voiced H like in audio, Czechs will think you're Moravian. In Prague they say it with the unvoiced CH.
Thanks for sharing. This was one detail that tripped me up when coming from learning Slovak, where the phrase is spelled as one word rather than two, and also is pronounced noticeably different. Good to know this is more of a regional difference than a correct/incorrect difference within the Czech language.
An important update - the new audio pronounces it differently from the the old audio so this comment is now obsolete. The new audio has the CH sound.
Morava je velká a zahrnuje řadu nářečí. Nazhledanou se skutečně vyskytuje. Stačí pohledat doklady: https://www.google.com/search?q=nazhledanou+v%C3%BDslovnost
Moravia is big and you can really meet the /nazhledanou/ pronunciation in certain dialects.
"Na shledanou" is pronounced together as one word with an emphasis on the first syllable - NAschledanou.
Yes, but not in Moravia, or in many parts of Moravia. "Na zhledanou" is one of the most typical difference between Czech and Moravian dialects of Czech language.
this getting really ridiculous: i wrote good bye instead of goodbye and it was not accepted. really really ridiculous and completely demotivating
I wonder what will be ridiculous to morrow. Not accepting to-day? That would verily be a bad morrow.
Na shledanou = Good bye. ahoj = Hello or Hi. Na shledanou can be used ONLY when leaving, while ahoj works for welcoming and leaving as well.
I put in the Czech equivalent of, "Goodbye, and thank you", for my answer, and I was told that it was wrong; it is simply, "Goodbye, thank you".
Is that grammatically correct? Don't Czech people use the equivalent of the English word, "and"?!
Lol.
And it is also possible to say "Goodbye, thank you" in English as well -- just as it is possible to say, "Hi, how are you?" or "Bye, have a good evening" without adding "and."
Is there a difference between "naschledanou" and "na shledanou"? I typed the first one and it worked.
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Is the stress in děkuji on the first or second syllable? I think I have heard it both ways.
As I (native AmE) understand it, the stress in Czech as a whole is more or less by default on the first syllable.
But it can sometimes sound like it isn't because of (1) vowels of different lengths within the word, (2) the tendency to shift the stress to the preposition in a preposition/noun pair, and (3) the shift of stress to the "ne-" component of negative verbs. Those are the stress-shifting situations that come to mind at the moment, but -- as a fellow learner of Czech -- I may have imagined or overlooked something. :-)
English has "thanks" and "thank you." Czech has díky and děkuji.