"Kde jsou ženy?"

Translation: Where are the women?

[AnikaChauhan]

Frantisek has them all

[ZethTheMartian]

Ah, our beautiful Katerina and Zofie are gone!

[Mzarie_mm]

Poor matej

[Andrew-Lin]

Is the K in "kde" voiced, like "g"? I know that this word in Russian is "где".

[JanLyko]

You're right, it is.

[Zander_Rose]

Consonants generally assimilate with the second consonant in the cluster. So because d is voiced, the k is pronounced like voiced g.

[Guenter212784]

I translated "Where are there women?" since I thought that "Where are the women" would rather be the translation for kde jsou ty ženy. So, if my translation is wrong, how would I say in Czech?

[abbathearm]

Is "where are there women" [to be found] really incorrect?

[JamesSkinn]

my answer of "where are the ladies" was corrected to "where are the wives". Is that a mistake or can ženy means wives in a certain context?

[kacenka9]

ŽENY (žena) can mean a wife in many cases. As well as MUŽ can mean a husband. Pretty much in 100% of cases where you say 'my woman, my man, his woman, their men... it means wife/husband. And many other cases. Čeká na ženu = he is waiting for (his) wife. If he was waiting for some unknown woman, Czech would say exactly that - some - nějakou.

[AlejandroM970269]

Why is it incorrect to say “where are their women?

[BoneheadBass]

There is no possessive pronoun in the Czech sentence, which is literally "Where are women." Since that doesn't work so well in English, it becomes "Where are the women."

[JordiFaxon]

Is there any way to distinguish between "where are the women?" and "where are women? (any women at all)"?

[VladaFu]

If you need to distinguish, you can use "ty/tamty ženy" for "the women".

[Gilbert334611]

Sorry, this is hardly understandable if iine had some problems with ears or noices at the surroundings. Heared always "te jsou zeny", which has no sence

[svrsheque]

both available voices clearly say "kde".