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- "Chce padesát černých koní."
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It is true that most word bank exercises contain exactly four extra words. (This has helped me more than once when I had five words left over.) Some have no extra words at all but I don't remember seeing one, two, three, or five.
This applies to the browser version; in the mobile app, fewer than four extra words seem to be not uncommon.
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Naively I would think that the verb “chtít” governs the accusative (chtěl bych jednou kavu = I would like a coffee).
The holy manual allows both forms: https://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?id=k%C5%AF%C5%88
And we have also been accepting both forms. But "koní" does sound better.
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Thank you for the link! Is this the common way to designate cases in Czech, I mean by a number instead of a name?
@Qurraguina - yes, that's how we learn them at primary school. Children begin learning this by memorizing "První pád: kdo co. Druhý pád: koho čeho. Třetí pád: komu čemu. Čtvrtý pád: koho co. Pátým pádem oslovujeme, voláme. Šestý pád: (o) kom čem. Sedmý pád: kým čím".
All Czechs know cases by numbers, only few know the Latin names (nominative...) But when teaching Czech, the Latin names are used exclusively, just like they are used in linguistics in all languages.