"František se stará o koně."

Translation: František takes care of horses.

[KatharinaM882088]

How can I know if it's one horse or many horses, when there is no article? Koně can be singular or plural.

[BoneheadBass]

Since you can't tell, without context which we don't have here, my guess is that both "horse" and "horses" would be accepted.

[endless_sleeper]

And, surprisingly, both singular and plural are accepted :o

[adelriosantiago]

Why "stará" is both "old" and "take care of"?? Can someone explain the logic behind that?

[VladaFu]

There is no logic, they are just homonyms.

[Brian459960]

I am quite curious if in Czech "Starat se o" means "take care of" or "care about", as you know in English they are quite different behaviors....

[VladaFu]

both

[LetitiateT]

What is the different betveen "take care of" and "look after". Is some different between these eords?

"Care about" is "záležet" in Czech, right?

Je rozdíl mezi výrazy "take care of" a "look after"? Aký?
"Care about" se překládá jako "záležet na (někom/něčem). Mýlím se?

[VladaFu]

Jsou dva druhy starání.

Stará se o svou babičku. Postarej se o to.

Nesterej se o cizí záležitosti.

První je "take care of" nebo "look after", druhé je "care about".

https://www.jazykovka.info/studujeme-jazyky/czenglish/take-care-of-vs-take-care-about/

[Praha2023]

Why is it František se stará o koně and not: František stará se o koně?

[VladaFu]

The second position rule for se.

[Rafaello201673]

What is called here the grammatical case of "o koně"? How would you say "he takes care of cats"?

[VladaFu]

It is the accusative case. It would be "Stará se o kočky."

[luzdelaluna]

Isn't it accusative here? Wiktionary says koně for accusative for both singular and plural, while koni/koňovi and koních for locative. https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/k%C5%AF%C5%88

Same with the cat. Kočku and kočky for accusative, kočce and kočkách for locative. https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/ko%C4%8Dka

[VladaFu]

It is, my mistake.

[AlexWold1]

Why not "is taking care of"?

[VladaFu]

it is accepted

[Emily-Smiley]

How about "František is taking care of horse?"

[VladaFu]

You do need an article.

[EstaJohnst1]

it tells me to do "Frantisek" as an English translation but then says I spelled Frantisek incorrectly (because English does not have a 'hacek' over the s)

[VladaFu]

You do not translate names. František in Czech texts is still František in English texts.

And, in addition, Frantisek is fully accepted in translations here to accomodate people without Czech keboard layouts.

[Eddie766479]

What does se mean in this sentence?

[VladaFu]

Se is a reflexive pronoun and an integral part of the reflexive verb "starat se".