"Mnoho dětí je tady."
Translation:Many children are here.
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No. Czech numbers (including words that define amounts like many, a lot, few, several...) are weird.
2, 3 and 4 are followed by nominative and would have JSOU
5 and everything higher, including undefined amounts are followed by genitiv and JE
What I mean with the nominative and genitive
3 děti jsou modré.
6 dětí je modrých
mnoho dětí je modrých
The TIPS for numbers are on the list of Tips next, so hopefully the explanation there will be little more "scientific"....
No, I get it. I knew 2-4 were special, and had picked up by listening to recorded lessons that the verbs followed suit, but had no idea about nominative and genitive. Thanks for the explanation.
What about a hundred and three children?
- 103 dětí jsou modré; anebo
- 103 dětí je modrých?
Thanks muchly.
That is qhite a good queston and would wonder if this changes anything or it is still the same rule as all numbers over 5.
Does it mean that the following is incorrect? 6 dětí je modré. Mnoho dětí je modré. And if not, which one is the preferable translation for "Many children are blue"?
'There are many children here' would be correct. Despite the illogic of 'there' equating to 'here'.
It's not the same. 'Here are...' is for introducing, whereas 'there are ...' is for description
Sometimes English is more complicated... or weak-minded... there and here in the same sentence
"There are a lot of children here" is accepted. But we have a report, that came in at the same time as your comment, for "There IS a lot of children here." It may or may not be yours.
