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"František v tom městě kupuje dům."
Translation:František is buying a house in that city.
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Proč není uznáváno "v tom městě" in the city? "In that city" by mělo být v tamtom městě?
Je to uznáváno, obojí je možná. Vždy je třeba reportovat celou větu. Chyba nebo prroblém může být kdekoli. Nejlépe pomocí "My answer should have been accepted".
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I put "Frantisek is in that city buying a house" which follows the order of the sentence in Czech so I'm not sure why it was not accepted - though I can see that the 2 sentences have a slightly different meaning
You cannot just use the order from one language in another.
Your sentence has a very different meaning and would be different in Czech.
František je ve městě a kupuje dům. (Can be made more direct - without "a" - with a transgressive, but I will avoid it.)
Sadly, the trangressive here would look the same as the indicative form, so few Czechs would even perceive it as a transgressive.
I think that this word order implies that the city he is in, is buying a house. Since this cannot happen, I'd avoid this one.
Native English here— "Frantisek buys a house in the city" feels like the correct translation to me, and even though it's present simple, he doesn't need to be doing so repeatedly.
Please point to something specific, this search finds loads of irrelevant stuff.
BTW we do agree that it is possible to use present simple in storytelling and similar.
I am still confused about the accuative case. Is it used here? This looks like the nominative case dum. Am I wrong?
Yes, it's used here. Normally, every time you have "Someone is doing something" the "something" is in the accusative (unless another case is specifically required by the verb, for example). This "is doing" can be pretty much any verb, including "mít" (to have), but it doesn't apply to simple "být" (to be).
Here, "dům" has the same form in the accusative as in the nominative. This is true for all masculine inanimate and neuter nouns, and for feminine nouns that end in a consonant. You will have to (gradually) learn the various forms of nouns in all cases.
For example:
- Stůl (table, masculine inanimate) -> Kupuje stůl. (He's buying a table)
- Pivo (beer, neuter) -> Má rád pivo. (He likes beer)
- Voda (water, feminine) -> Pije vodu. (He's drinking water)
- Kluk (boy, masculine animate) -> Vidí kluka. (He sees a boy)
In all the above sentences, the nouns are in accusative, but sometimes (stůl, pivo) they look the same as nominative.
