"Byla to dobrá žena."

Translation: She was a good woman.

[kitbogan]

I tried "It was that good woman" instead. How come Czech "to" winds up as English "a" instead of "the" or "that" here?

[kacenka9]

The TO here is your IT. The word order could easily have been TO BYLA DOBRA..... Then it might make more sense to you?