"We are leading the horses away."

Translation: Vedeme ty koně pryč.

[2200Lucia60]

"Ty koně vedeme pryč" could function too, right? Maybe it answers to the hypothetical question: "What are you doing (with those horses)?!" ?

[VladaFu]

It is accepted.

[2200Lucia60]

I just feel quite unsure about the wordorder.. a hard part of the learning. THANKS VLADA

[Janmunroe]

Is the demonstrative needed in this sentence? Is it used because it denotes a SPECIFIC group of horses? Again, the subtleties of when to use them and when it's acceptable NOT to use them is a gray area for me still.

[AgnusOinas]

It's not needed and answers without it are also accepted. It's just likely to be used here in the same function as the english "the" - to specify that they are not just any horses, but the horses (that we talked about, for example).

Simply said, when you have a choice in English whether you use "the" or not, you have a similar choice in Czech - the demonstrative will then fill the role of the article - expressing it's a specific object.

But you often have no choice in English - the article must be present simply because grammar dictates it (notice how often we use the definite article) - in such cases, Czech won't use anything and using "ten/ta/to..." will be equivalent to using "that" - to actually pointing. For example, I just wrote "the definite article" in the previous sentence - I had no choice, it would be bad grammar to write "we use definite article" - hence saying "používáme ten určitý člen" sounds just like "we use that definite article". Another example is "do the dishes" - no option to omit the article, it just has to be there, so it won't be in Czech. "Umýt to nádobí" is equivalent to "do those dishes".

[SarahBisho366610]

My answer without the demonstrative was not accepted.

[VladaFu]

When something was not accepted, you have to ask about a complete sentence.