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Why is "is the girl pretty" not acceptable. I thought "to" was demonstrative rather than pronoun? In other words why isn't the translation of the above "ona je hezka divka". Sorry as we English say, I don't know how to get accents on my keyboard.
"Demonstratives" can be demonstrative pronouns, or they can be demonstrative adjectives.
This car is mine. "This" is a demonstrative adjective.
Whose car is this? "This" is a pronoun."
This tip briefly, and incompletely, discusses "demonstratives." https://www.duolingo.com/skill/cs/Masculine/tips-and-notes
Why not je ta hezka divka? rather than je to hezka divka? Doesn't the to/ta have to agree with the feminine? Apologies no accents...
This translation should really be "Is this a pretty girl?"
The word "this" is used as a noun, so it doesn't need to be modified. It stays "to" on its own
This is the common "Je to..." "To je..." sentence type (construction). You will see it again and again.
Here we actually accept both this and that. But I think "that" is closer.
Va-diim,
IN English "this" would be a demonstrative PRONOUN, and not a noun. (A PROnoun substitutes for a noun.)
I assume the same is true in Czech (Namely, its a demonstrative pronoun.
This tip confirms what I say, I believe. https://www.duolingo.com/skill/cs/Masculine/tips-and-notes
You're probably correct. I just meant that to je/je to, "this/that/it is...," is treated as a noun in this sentence as opposed to a noun determiner which must match the declension of its noun. Ta hezká dívka "this/that pretty girl"
So did the mod mean the placement of 'that' is wrong, not that it shouldn't be there at all?
To is the subject and does not modify hezká dívka, correct?
To is the subject, "that." If you reverse the question into a statement,
"That is a pretty girl." Back to question form,
"Is that a pretty girl?" I don't know why Duolingo's answer is "Is she a pretty girl?"
All of these are accepted: She, It, This, and That. And, as VladaFu mentioned, "This is this common Je to..., To je... sentence tyoe. You will see it again and again."
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so far 'hezky' means: pretty/nice/cute/handsome. all words are from this course. when I checked CZ-PL dictionary it gave me a word: 'ładny' which means 'pretty' or 'beautiful'. I didn't take a translation 'nice' from nowhere - it was on duolingo earlier
