"Nenávidím to."

Translation: I hate it.

[emrhCpJT]

How is nenavidim different in meaning from neznasim? Also, thanks so much to all who developed this course and to all who help answer questions.

[Esus111138]

Nenavidím is way stronger especialy if you say it about a person

[EvanSendra1]

This is an interesting one. What would the negative sound like?

[VladaFu]

"I like it." "Mám to rád."

I have already commented elsewhere that there was a verb "náviděti" in Old Czech, but it has been long forgotten.

Actually, some modern Czech dictionaries list it as well, but consider it archaic.

[kacenka9]

Boom! Nobody knows! This is what looks like a negative, kind of is negative but has no positive. Not in linguistic manner. "Návidím ho" does not exist. The opposite of nenávidím would be "miluju ho" (I love him) though that expression has its own opposite "nemiluju ho". At the same time "nemiluju ho" is not the same as "nenavidim ho". I do not love him vs. I hate him is obviously different.

[a-m-j]

How would you say "I don't hate him"? "Já nenenávidím ho?"

[VladaFu]

1. Ho neeeds to be in the second position. 2. There are whole linguistic articles about such verb http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=892 but it does not exist. You have to describe it indirectly. "Není pravda, že tě nenávidím." "It is not true that I hate you."

[VladaFu]

Apparently it does exist :) PSJČ does not even mark it archaic yet.

[snikta]

the d in this sounds like a hard g sound - is that how a d is pronounced after an i with an accent?[ -sorry I don't have it on my keyboard]

[VladaFu]

D followed by an i or í is pronounced as Ď. The audio is not completely correct as it stresses "dí" way too much, but the Ď sound sounds fine to my ears. It is a voiced palatal stop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_stop