"Máš lehký kabát?"

Translation: Do you have a light coat?

[EinatAdar]

Is kabát coat or jacket or both or it depends? Every sentence containing this word seems to be using a different English word in translation and it's very confusing.

[kacenka9]

I think that English is more lax on the use of coat. It can be a lot of things. Kabát on the other hand is non sport like, goes at least under your buttocks and longer, typically would have buttons, not a zipper.

[EinatAdar]

Thanks for the answers. Putting the two together (Google and explanation) I have a better picture in my mind now of what type of coats are included.

[BrianSille2]

Do you mean an overcoat?

[VladaFu]

I fear this requires someone who know fashion in both languages. If a trench coat is different from an overcoat, then Czech, for example, trenčkot is a kabát for me. But there is also plášť as a broad category of cloathing. For example, the stuff that they wear in laboratories or hospitals is plášť but this word is also used in fashion.

[BrianSille2]

Thank you. As I understand it KABAT is an outer garment, not a jacket of sport coat. Of course fashion changes in language as well as in clothing and, as I am in my mid eighties, I have difficulty with much of the modern terminology in relation to clothing!

[JanLyko]

Google Images https://images.google.com/ can help you a lot.

Try "kabát" (just ignore pictures of a rock band named "Kabát"), "bunda" and "sako".