"Matěj is our friends' son."
Translation:Matěj je syn našich přátel.
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Is it possible to say "matej je našich přátel syn"? Is the order of words is important?
It just sounds archaic, like this ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TJNkqmwTlg ) old song "Já jsem z Kutný Hory koudelníkův syn".
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From previous threads i know that Duo has a problem with apostrophes. However, it seems to me that the genitive here should be either plural as in naších přítelů or singular as in našého přítele as a soft masculine noun?
'Našich přítelů' is not standard Czech.
And singular would be 'našeho přítele' with short 'e'.
I also thought it should be pritele or pritelu (one of the genitive forms. Isn't FRIENDS' possessive plural? Doesn't ownership (sons of our friends). What am I not understanding about genitive? (sorry, I can't type accents with my keyboard. How do the others do it?)
Check the genitive plural in the declension table https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/p%C5%99%C3%ADtel#Declension There are more nnouns that behave this way, there is an example list http://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?id=227
You can type anything from any language when you install the appropriate keyboard āēѭяѧѣείοźćńⱁⰾⱄ.
Depends on your device, but ask about it elsewhere, not in a sentence discussion. A search engine like Google is your friend http://duolingo.wikia.com/wiki/Guide_to_keyboard_layouts_and_input_methods
