"Máš sýr?"

Translation: Do you have cheese?

[Freomann]

Does he pronounce sýr like see-uh?

[VladaFu]

I never know what English speakers mean by those eh, oh, uh. It is pronounced as /siːr/. The final consonant is there and it is R, not H. The TTS here is not great.

[Freomann]

Thanks, I know the right pronunciation, I just wondered why does he pronounce Czech /r/ like short /a/ at the end as in German, at least I hear it like this.

[AlexusD90]

Why Czech "y" is rea d like "i"?

[VladaFu]

ý and í denote the same sound. The same is true for y and i. The difference is purely orthographical and historical.

[Renardo_11]

I thought "i" softens (palatalizes) the preceding consonant (like a haček) while "y" does not? Of course you are right that the vowels themselves sound the same.

[VladaFu]

That is correct. That is an orthography point connected to the history. It could be different. Slovak, for example, has a different orthography and implicitly palatalizes even "de" "te" "ne". In Slovak those are pronounced [ďe, ťe, ňe].

[Eva_Ostrava]

Thank you very much!

[cestina1]

I translated this as "Do you have any cheese?" which is how I, an elderly native English speaker, would render it. So since it is marked as incorrect I should like to know how one would say "Do you have any cheese?" in Czech please. Thanks

[VladaFu]

Máš nějaký sýr?

[Roberto2496]

when do youn know when "Mas" goes first or last. Like in the previous senteces. "Maso mas", know is "Mas Syr"??

[VladaFu]

You do not, both orders are possible. Czech word order is largely controlled by the topic/comment distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_and_comment