"It's warm outside today."

Translation: Dnes je venku teplo.

[fehrerdef]

Is "Dnes je teplo venku." not possible?

[VladaFu]

Strange, like if you were contrasting outside with somwhere else.

[fehrerdef]

Like in "It's warm outside today, but inside it is still warm"?

[Taras895680]

Why not "dnes venku je tĕplo"?

[VladaFu]

těplo is not a Czech word

[Alex.Eisner]

On that point though, why is it unacceptable to write "dnes venku je teplo"?

[VladaFu]

Je wants to be in the send position. Or maybe rather venku does not want to be there, because je is not a clitic.

[svrsheque]

"je" is an inconstant c.

[venik212]

Both venku and teplo describe how it is today. Is it grammatically incorrect to put the temperature descriptor (teplo) before specifying the location (venku), as we do in English, or is it just not commonly used that way?

[VladaFu]

It must be this way unless you want strongly stress venku to tell that it is warm OUTSIDE, contrasting it with inside. Like in: We must let the food to defrost outside, because it is warm outside and not inside. (... protože je teplo venku a ne uvnitř.)

[venik212]

Thanks.