Topic: Czech

"Tady se nekouří!"

Translation:There is no smoking here!

November 22, 2017

4 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/profile/bright_flash
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Sorry, but what is this sentence doing in this theme? Nekouří is not a passive form, from what I can tell.

November 22, 2017
https://www.duolingo.com/profile/JamesTWils
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It is here to teach English speakers that what we express with the passive voice is often expressed in Czech with a reflexive or a construction with to have.

January 8, 2018
https://www.duolingo.com/profile/svrsheque

    thank you. i expected people would ask a different question, i.e., what is the se doing in the sentence, or who the subject of nekouří is :-)

    January 21, 2018
    https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Shathu_Entayla
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      It is the so-called reflective passive voice, I guess.

      May 1, 2018
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